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Elephant Appreciation Day: Wow Your Friends With This Trivia

It's Elephant Appreciation Day today, September 22nd, and although this may seem like an odd day to celebrate, elephants are much loved creatures so if they want to have their own day, we at NowPublic think that they...

Tuskers forcibly removed from an Elephant Orphanage in Sri Lanka

Two baby tuskers were forcibly removed from it's orphanage and separated from their mothers by the Diyawadana Nilame Nilanga Dela of Dalada Maligawa. Nilanga Dela is not only accused of ill-treating the two tuskers named Raju and Sindu, but also of other tuskers at the Dalada...

Animal Charity Saves 60 Elephants but they may be Trophy Hunted

The animal charity, International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW), is in the process of saving 60 elephants in Malawi and moving them to the Majete park where they can live out their days in peace. But it is now being discovered that the Majete Park may allow the animals to be...

Kenya suffers wave of elephant killings

Poachers seeking valuable ivory have killed up to 20 elephants across north Kenya in the last two weeks, locals said on Wednesday. Residents said the elephants were shot and stripped of their tusks in remote areas of Samburu, Laikibia and Marsabit districts, where wildlife is...

Elephants migrate out of Zimbabwe to save themselves

About 400 hundred elephants have migrated across the Zambezi River from troubled Zimbabwe to Zambia to get away from increasing poaching and loss of habitat due to human development and conflict. The Zimbabwe Task...

Two Rare elephants shot dead in Indonesia

Two rare Sumatran elephants were killed by single shots to the head and discovered near their rangers' camp near Kerinci National Park in Indonesia. They were used to patrol protected forests but it is thought...

Britney’s Circus Tour Will not include Elephants

Britney Spears will be going on tour this year to promote her Circus album, but PETA was angry about the fact that she used real elephants in her music video for the song Circus. However, Britney has announced...

Classical music helps calm elephants

Classical music helps calm elephants in captivity.  Researchers concluded that elephants that heard classical music were less likely to engage in abnormal behaviours.  "The researchers have discovered...

New plans to protect native tigers and elephants in Sumatra

There will be new measures put in place to conserve the numbers of tigers and elephants on the island of Sumatra.The Tesso Nilo National Park will be doubled in size, and is an important area of forest for both...

Namibia licences elephant cull

Environmentalists are angry at Namibia's decision to allow a cull for of elephants for 'trophy hunters'. Some including the government of Namibia feel the herds can sustain the loss but with money to be made from...

Soaring US demand for Ivory may force African elephants extinction

Rise in demand for ivory has increased threat to already declining African elephant. Increasing demand in US for ivory made gun grips and knife handles has even worsened situation. US has been...

New fears for elephants over ivory sale to China

Permission given to China to buy stockpile of elephant ivory could prove death knell for elephants all over the world. Wildlife Conservationists have warned that the ivory sale would provide impetus to mass...

African Elephants

Elephant photos taken at Aberdare Park (Ark), Kenya and Addo Park (South Africa)

Elephant had aquatic ancestor

 An ancient ancestor of the elephant from 37 million years ago lived in water and had a similar lifestyle to a hippo, a fossil study has suggested.The animal was said to be similar to a tapir, a hoofed...

The arrest of a mahout with his begging-elephant in Bangkok-Center

I was confronted in the Sukhumvit Rd. with police officers escorting a mahout with his “begging elephant”. One of the officers has confiscated his hook which they are using to keep the animal under control....

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