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RESOURCES FEBRUARY 2017

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GENERAL STORIES

Date Published
How to Photograph an Elephant
Alexa Keefe & Photographs by Michael Nichols, National Geographic
February 8, 2017
 

When it comes to elephant water births, it really does take a herd
Earth Touch

February 9, 2017
 

Elephant orphans moved to secured boma for reintegration into wild (Zambia)Press Release/SATPRNews/The GRI-Elephant Orphanage Project (EOP) 

Wildlife trade under the spotlight at Northumbria event
University of North Umbria
Eco-friendly paper out of elephant poop (India)
Press Trust of India 
February 12, 2017
Oliphants: Ivory instruments made from elephants’ tusks used by warriors and hunters in the Middle Ages
Vintage News
February 14, 2017
https://www.thevintagenews.com/2017/02/14/priority-olifants-ivory-instruments-made-elephants-tusks-used-warriors-hunters-middle-ages/

Saving the Elephants brings huge help from Plum Creek Elementary School students (Kansas, USA)

Kathy Hanks, Hutchinson News
February 23, 2017
Africa’s Eden, A Small Paradise Torn Apart
Thunder: An Elephant’s Journey Erik Daniel Shein and L. M. Reker
Digital Journal
February 24, 2017
 

Zimbabwe: Volunteer Conservationist’s Brave Fight for Zim’s Elephants
Book Review, Conelia Mabasa, The Standard
February 5, 2017
http://allafrica.com/stories/201702060094.html

 

Charlotte’s circus of horror and the mad elephant Chief

Mark Washburn, The Charlotte Observer
January 20, 2017
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/mark-washburn/article127779374.html

 
Ancient Coins – Elephants on Ancient Coinage
Mike Markowitz, CoinWeek
February 6, 2017
 
$4.7 Million Funding Available for Combating Wildlife Trafficking in Southeast Asia
Elizabeth Telan
February 25, 2017
Summary: The U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of International Narcotics-Law Enforcement Affairs announced that it intends to award up to three discretionary grants for combating wildli[fe] (must fill out form).
http://www.targetednews.com/display_story.php?s_id=1294502

Studying Elephant Communication
Biointeractive (Scientists at work: Caitlin O’Connell-Rodwell
February 16, 2016

PHOTO & VIDEO
 

Album: Elephants’ paradise – Zimbabwe’s Gonarezhou National Park

Xinhua
February 4, 2017

That’s one way to stand out from the crowd! Elephant looks like it’s covered in gold after treating itself to a muddy bath (CAR)

Daily Mail
February 2, 2017
 
Adorable elephant calf collapses in a heap while taking its first very shaky steps
(South Africa)
Daily Mail 
February 7, 2017

No easy tusk! Asian elephants are spotted CLIMBING near vertical mountainside (India)
Daily Mail
February 15, 2017

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4227268/Elephants-treading-carefully-steep-mountainside.html

 

Don’t mess with Mum! Fearless elephant charges and kicks at wild dogs after they try to ambush her calves (India)
Daily Mail
February 17, 2017
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4234236/Fearless-elephant-charges-kicks-pack-wild-dogs.html

 
Baby elephant risks life to protect dying mother
Daily Mirror  
February 23, 2017
Ellie was on a safari trip in Sri Lanka recently and saw all kinds of wildlife on her travels.In this video, Ellie captured these elephants roaming around the Udawalawe National Park (Sri Lanka)
MSN video
February 15, 2017

Annoyed elephant picks up a branch and HURLS it at a safari jeep after walking menacingly towards the passengers in South Africa

Daily Mail
February 27, 2017

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4263502/Elephant-picks-branch-HURLS-jeep-South-Africa.html

 
Rampaging elephant charges at car for over a MILE as Brits scream in terror (South Africa)
Simon Green, Daily Star
February 23, 2017
 
Inside Story – Who is gaining from illegal wildlife trade?
Al Jazeera
May 24, 2016 (perhaps was replayed more recently; unclear).
Summary: The UN says wildlife trafficking is a crime threatening many plant and animal species. Presenter: Laura Kyle Guests: Ted Leggett, Debbie Banks, Ofir Drori
 
ARTS
 

Artist’s portrait of elephant killed by poachers brings attention to the cost of the ivory trade
Wendy Maruyama’s wildLIFE Project continues its US tour to San Francisco this month
Victoria Stapley-Brown, The Art Newspaper

February 7, 2017
 

Why Did Medieval Artists Give Elephants Trunks That Look Like Trumpets?
Sarah Laskow, Atlas Obscura
February 10, 2017