June 2008
A herd of about 10 rampaging wild elephants have destroyed a newly-planted rubber tree plantation and threatened the lives of local people in Central Highland’s Gia Lai Province.
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PANAJI — Battery as well as solar panel-operated electrical fence, elephant protection trenches (EPT), watchtowers along the Goa-Maharashtra border area, pair of a male-female tamed elephants and an elephant camp at Pernem are some of the medium-term as well as long-term measures to be taken up by the forest department to control the wild elephants creating nuisance in the Northernmost part of Goa.
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RANCHI, India (Reuters Life!) - Forget mice -- Indian villagers have recruited camels to protect their farmlands and homes from marauding elephants, saying the beasts' stink was enough to keep the pachyderms at bay.
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At nearly 6,000 meters in height, Mount Kilimanjaro is both Africa's tallest mountain and the world's highest solitary peak, home to a diverse range of habitats that support a large variety of plant species. Yet, unlike any other mountain in Africa, Mount Kilimanjaro contains no bamboo.
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KOLKATA: Elephants raided the relief camps of flood victims at Nayagram in West Bengal’s Paschim Medinipur district on Sunday and consumed much of the foodstuff stocked there.
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MOMBASA, KENYA - June 24 - African elephant range states meeting in Mombasa, Kenya, have raised exception with undue focus on ivory trade within the CITES framework, saying preference should instead be given to conservation of elephants and mitigating challenges such as human wildlife conflict, law enforcement, building management capacity for range states and establishing mechanisms for local and trans- boundary elephant translocations.
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Sakura was in big trouble. The three-year-old elephant had fallen backwards into a well three metres deep, and was trapped. She had been there for nearly two weeks without food or water. Her mother and the herd had finally given up and moved on.
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Game rangers in Yokadouma, East Province of Cameroon, recentlyconfiscated 13 elephant tusks and made some arrests.The tusks were tucked away in a timber truck.
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