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Super-Sized Treadmill Instead of Retirement for Ailing Elephant?
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, elephants, zoos, sanctuary, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 1 hour ago - blog.peta.org
PETA and ZooCheck have been campaigning to convince officials at the Edmonton Zoo, deemed Canada's worst zoo for elephants by African elephant biologist Winnie Kiiru, to release its sole pachyderm prisoner, Lucy, to a sanctuary. We've reasoned with zoo
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Elephants Don't Belong in Zoos: Central Zoo Authority
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, elephants, zoos, India, environment, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 2 days ago - beta.thehindu.com
As per an order from the Central Zoo Authority (CZA) of India, "elephants have been banned from zoo collection throughout the country with immediate effect". The order stipulates that all elephants kept at zoos should be immediately relocated to elephant
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San Antonio Zoo Is No Place For Queenie ! TAKE ACTION !
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, elephants, zoos, environment, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 5 days ago - all-creatures.org
Please let the USDA know that any decision to send Queenie to the San Antonio Zoo, or any other zoo with a cramped and unnatural elephant exhibit, will be met with widespread public outrage. After all she's been through, Queenie deserves to live her
16 comments
No More Elephants in India's Circuses and Zoos
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, elephants, zoos, India, environment, protection, suffering, wildlife )

Cher
- 7 days ago - animalrights.change.org
In Defense of Animals has just sent out word of good news for elephants in India. Recognizing that zoos and circuses can't possibly, even in the best of circumstances, meet these animals' needs, the Central Zoo Authority has ordered the release of 140
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Big Jump in Illegal Ivory Seizures - Nigeria, DRC & Thailand Are Hotspots
Animals  (tags: animals, ivory seizures, elephants, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 8 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
The illicit trade in ivory, which has been increasing in volume since 2004, moved sharply upward in 2009, according to the latest analysis of seizure data in the Elephant Trade Information System (ETIS).
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Confinement of Elephants to Zoos Banned in India
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, elephants, captivity, banned, India, zoos, environment, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 9 days ago - blog.peta.org
That's right. India, which is home to an estimated 23,900 to 32,900 wild elephants, will no longer allow its most prominent national symbol--the elephant--to be imprisoned in zoos. The move by India's Central Zoo Authority (CZA) comes after years of
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New Wildlife Trade Rules for Tuna, Sharks Coral & Ivory Proposed - Tanzania & Zambia Want to Allow Elephant Hunting
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, elephants, hunting, wildlife trade, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 9 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
Elephants, one of WWF's priority species, will be a topic of debate at the CITES CoP as potentially conflicting proposals were submitted for elephants. Kenya submitted a proposal - together with a group of west African countries - that would impose a 19
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Too Many Elephants or Too Many People?
Animals  (tags: elephants, wild animals, villagers, conflicts, homes, human invasion, protection )

Simone
- 10 days ago - goafrica.about.com
The LA Times had an interesting article this weekend that discusses the serious danger elephants in parts of southern Africa pose to villagers living close to wildlife reserves and parks. The fact is, there are many communities in Zambia and Botswana whe
3 comments
Elephant Pepper Development Trust
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, conservation, elephants, pepper, habitat, protection, environment, wildlife, wildanimals, humans )

Cher
- 10 days ago - elephantpepper.org
The Elephant Pepper Development Trust aims to promote the livelihood of farmers living in elephant range through training, the deployment of appropriate conflict mitigation methods and development of agricultural techniques which promote elephant
1 comment
Zimbabwe: FOUR PAWS Leads Mary's Herd to a Life in Freedom
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, elephants, transferred, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 10 days ago - vier-pfoten.org
Under the cool breeze of the Zimbabwean night sky, FOUR PAWS has transferred a group of rescued elephants to the Hwange National Park. The nine animals had been caught illegally in the wild and kept under atrocious conditions for months.
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NEW REPORT REVEALS DEPRIVATION AND SUFFERING OF MANILA ZOO'S ELEPHANT
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, elephants, zoos, suffering, protection, environment, wildanimals )

Cher
- 10 days ago - petaasiapacific.com
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) Asia -- an affiliate of PETA US, the largest animal rights group in the world, which has more than 2 million members and supporters -- has released a new report on Vishwamali ("Mali" for short),
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ACTION ALERT: Tell the United States That Elephants Need More Protection at CITES!
Animals  (tags: cities, meetings, elephants, poaching, endangered, ivory trade, countries, ban ivory ban worldwide )

Simone
- 12 days ago - secure.humanesociety.org
The only way to end elephant poaching is to stop any further ivory trade and eliminate the market for ivory once and for all. We can start by getting countries to support the call by six African countries--Congo, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Mali, and Sierra
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Elephant Does Maternity Exercises
Animals  (tags: animals, animalwelfare, elephants, wildanimals, wildlife )

Maria
- 13 days 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
- 15 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
- 17 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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