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December 2012

Rangers in Isolated Central Africa Uncover Grim Cost of Protecting Wildlife
Ivory smugglers using Spain
Smugglers adapt fresh tactics to transport trophy
New York tightens restrictions on illegal ivory trade
All measures to fend off wild elephants futile (Nepal)
Train Kills 5 Elephants In East India
Tusker herd destroys crops, kills villager in Manjhgaon (India)
Locals protest against tusker menace (Nepal)
Rhinos and elephants: the secret lives of Africa's giants
A bumper year for illegal trade in ivory
Govt ready to join UN in LRA poaching probe (Tanzania)
Namibia's widening poaching crisis
Thailand Introduces Measures To Control Ivory Trade
In Gabon, Lure of Ivory Is Hard for Many to Resist
Tanzania implements important step to win the war against wildlife terrorists
Dar drops bid to sell Sh89bn ivory stockpile (Tanzania)
Nepal campaigners plead for killer elephant's life
CITES welcomes United Nations Security Council call to investigate links between elephant poaching, ivory smuggling and illicit financing of the LRA
Aucklander charged with ivory-smuggling
The case for conserving elephant landscapes (Sri Lanka)
Three killed by elephants (India)
Jumbo customers feast on PDS rice (India)
Kenya: Taxman Seizes Sh2 Million Ivory Bound for China
Elephants need forests to reproduce, not money (Vietnam)
Kenya: Jumbos Ruin 100 Acres of Crop in Laikipia
Elephants rampage in Jambi (Indonesia)
Turning poachers into elephant saviors (Kenya)
Mugabe trades elephants in covert deal with China (Zimbabwe)
UN council calls for LRA ivory poaching investigation (DR Congo)
New report confirms ‘major surge’ in ivory smuggling in 2011
Wild elephants trample rice fields in Pegu Township (Myanmar)
WWF Applauds Cameroon’s Mobilization of 600 Elite Soldiers to Defend Country from Poachers
LRA poaching ivory as Kony hunt intensifies (DR Congo)
Tuskers wreak havoc in Udayapur VDCs (Nepal)
Apathy helps Odisha jumbo toll mount (India)
Ivory traders must register by January (Thailand)
Kenya: Two Poachers Arrested in Kitale Town
Tanzania: Local Firms to Boost Anti-Poaching Drive
Wild tuskers kill 1, injure another (India)
'Mad elephant' terrorising villages in Nepal
Tusks seized at Suvarnabhumi (Thailand)
Kenya decries killing of rhinos, elephants
Tusker victims take to streets (Nepal)
Immense Cache of Smuggled Ivory Is Seized in Malaysia
Elephants ransack residential area in Guwahati (India)
Ivory sales must stop or Africa's elephants could soon be extinct, says Jane Goodall
Tanzania cracks down on illegal ivory poaching
Tuskers demolish 15 houses in Saptari (Nepal)
Wild elephants' rampage in Balasore push villagers to tree tops (India)
Wild elephants ransack tea estate director's bungalow (India)