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Animals News tagged with elephants

Elephant Does Maternity Exercises
Animals  (tags: animals, animalwelfare, elephants, wildanimals, wildlife )

Maria
- 20 hours ago - telegraph.co.uk
Panang, who is nearing the end of her two-year gestation period, was guided by her minder Andi Fries at the Tierpark Hellabrunn Zoo in Munich. The elephant, who is due this month or next, has been pregnant twice before, but both calves were
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Your Morning Adorable: Asian Elephant Calf Goes for a Swim at Australia's Taronga Zoo
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, elephants, zoos, calf, environment, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 2 days ago - latimesblogs.latimes.com
At Australia's Taronga Zoo, the birth of an Asian elephant calf this summer was a cause for celebration. The calf, a male, was the first of his species to be born in an Australian zoo.
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Has Tanzania Broken Ranks With EAC Over Elephant Ivory Trade?
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, ivory, trade ban, elephants, environment, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 4 days ago - ecoworldly.com
Tanzania is reportedly preparing to ask CITES to lift the trade ban on elephant ivory, much to the dismay of its EAC neighbors, conservationists, and members of the tourism industry.
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Elephants Captured By Zimbabwe Game Lodge to Be Removed and Released Back Into Wild After Cruelty Allegations
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, elephants, removed and released, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 5 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
Nine cruelly abused elephants have been rescued from a commercial training facility in Zimbabwe, the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) has announced.
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India Calls for Elephant Range States to Address Increasing Elephant Deaths
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, elephants, killing, India, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 5 days ago - ecoworldly.com
Officials from elephant range states are meeting in Delhi this week in hopes of finding a solution to the growing number of elephant killings in India
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Elephant Abuse Charges and Freed Circus Animals in Need of Homes
Animals  (tags: circus animlas, bolvian circus animals in need of home, animal abuse, elephants, abused, queenie )

Simone
- 9 days ago - animalrights.change.org
Two pieces of recent good news in the United States and Bolivia, related to animals abused in entertainment venues, deserve some acknowledgment this month -- especially given that despite the good news, animals in both cases are still in danger and in
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Elephant Abuse Charges Filed Against Texas Man
Animals  (tags: animals, elephants, abuse, charges, AnimalWelfare, suffering, protection, environment, wildanimals )

Cher
- 14 days ago - examiner.com
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has filed elephant abuse charges against Wilbur Davenport, an elephant owner and handler in Legget, Texas who used the elephants around the country in circus acts and to give rides to children.
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5 Ivory Dealers Arrested in Voi
Animals  (tags: animals, elephants, ivory, arrests, AnimalWelfare, environment, killing, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 15 days ago - kbc.co.ke
Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) personnel have arrested five prominent businessmen including a woman in connection with illegal sale of ivory.
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URGENT, Very ABUSED Elephants in African, Now IFAW Needs Your Help to Rescue
Animals  (tags: IFAW, elephants, cruelty, abuse, death, crime, corruption, ethics, environment, family, violence )

Echo
- 16 days ago - ifaw.org
Your Response is Urgently Requested by Oct 27, 2009. A commercial game company captures wild elephants from family groups, transports them to a holding facility and then breaks their spiritby "taming" them using a variety of cruel and torturous methods.
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Illegal Ivory Shipments Worth Millions Seized at Kenya and Nairobi Airports
Animals  (tags: animals, ivory, illegal, elephants, seized, AnimalWelfare, environment, killing, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 18 days ago - all-creatures.org
Kenyan and Ethiopian authorities have seized over 1,200 kilograms (2,600 pounds) of ivory - representing the killing of about 100 elephants.
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100 Elephants Killed Daily To Meet Illegal Ivory Demand, Chinese Appetite Whetted
Animals  (tags: animals, elephants, ivory, illegal, AnimalWelfare, environment, killing, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 18 days ago - ecoworldly.com
Thanks to the controversial approval of a one-off ivory sale, illegal trade in ivory has been reinvigorated - and 100 elephants a day are being slaughtered.
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100 Elephants Being Slaughtered Every Day By Poachers - 20 Years After Ivory Ban
Animals  (tags: animals, elephants, ivory, killed, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 19 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
Even though the ivory trade was banned 20 years ago, a shocking 104 elephants are still being killed every day for their tusks. This alarming level of illegal hunting could drive the African elephant to extinction across much of Africa in just 15 years.
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Severe Drought Killing Kenya's Majestic Elephants
Animals  (tags: animals, elephants, drought, killing, death, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 19 days ago - mnn.com
Some 80 elephants have died in the past month as watering holes vanish. Meanwhile, poachers move in to attack the vulnerable.
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African Elephants Could Be Extinct in 15 Years
Animals  (tags: animals, elephants, extinction, AnimalWelfare, environment, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 20 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
The sight of elephants trekking trunk-to-tail across the Saharan Plains may soon be lost from African landscapes because of the illegal ivory trade, conservation experts have warned
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ACTION ALERT: Tell Sri Lanka That Elephants Belong in the Wild, Not in Zoos!!!
Animals  (tags: sri lanka, elephants, tortured, caged, imprisoned, zoos, suffering )

Simone
- 24 days ago - action.petaasiapacific.com
Sri Lanka recently announced plans to import elephants from Thailand to be sentenced to life in confinement in zoos. Taken from their families and homeland, elephants in zoos suffer a life of chronic physical ailments, social deprivation, emotional
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