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“One of the things we have in our stores is journals and note cards and other paper products made from real giant panda and Asian elephant poop,” says Matt Olear, spokesman for the Friends of the National Zoo. ” – WTOPnews.com

“The Department of Wildlife has now decided to pay compensation to all people who are victims of wild elephant attacks. ” – Sri Lanka News

“Africa’s largest-ever investigation of wildlife crime has unearthed a ton of illegal African elephant ivory, several animal pelts, and hippopotamus teeth, the Kenya Wildlife Service and INTERPOL announced this week. ” – National Geographic News

“Thirteen elephants have died at the LA Zoo over the past 30 or so years. There have been calls for the city to follow San Francisco and the famed Bronx Zoo and close down the La Zoo’s pachyderm enclosure. ” – NBC Los Angeles

“Wild elephants are intelligent. They uproot fully grown trees and hurl them on solar/electric fences erected to deter them from entering fields bordering forests. They wait for a downpour or throw water on chilli-tobacco fences to remove their tangy sting. Then they literally trample across the barrier and feast on the crops.” – DNA

“People turned out in droves to Auckland Zoo on Sunday as Kashin the elephant celebrated her 40th birthday.” – tvnz.co.nz

“A Cameroon court sentenced a poacher to five years in jail and a hefty fine for killing eight elephants, a government official said on Tuesday.” – Reuters.com

“3, 8 tonnes of ivory worth US$487 000 were sold yesterday at a special auction conducted exclusively for Chinese and Japanese buyers in Harare.” – Newsnet

“A year into her new life roaming a California sanctuary with other elephants, Alaska’s favorite expat shows every sign of enjoying it. She trumpets, knocks down trees and calls for her companions when they wander too far, say her new keepers.” – adn.com

“South Africa may start its first elephant culls since 1994 next year to protect other species harmed by their destruction of habitats. ” – Bloomberg.com

“A year into her new life roaming a California sanctuary with other elephants, Alaska’s favorite expat shows every sign of enjoying it. She trumpets, knocks down trees and calls for her companions when they wander too far, say her new keepers.” – ScrippsNews

“Botswana auctioned 44 tonnes of ivory Friday to buyers from China to Japan at a luxurious resort, officials said, in a closed-door sale expected to rake in millions of dollars.” – AFP

“Only a year old, Calgary’s success story baby elephant, Malti, has died from a herpes virus, about which very little is known. ” – Metro

“There is, apparently, such as a ting as the World Elephant Polo Association–which is why a group of New Yorkers who are participating in a tournament in Nepal later this month were working on their polo skills. But since there were no pachyderms to be had, they had to do so on top of SUV rooftops in Jacob Riis Park.” – Gothamist

“A baby elephant died at the Calgary Zoo in Alberta, Canada, over the weekend after a brief battle with a virus that has killed dozens of captive elephants around the world in the past two decades, zoo officials said. ” – Planet Ark

“It’s as close to the lion lying down with the lamb as you are likely to see – exceot the lamb is a full-grown sheep and its snoozing partner is a baby elephant.” – Mail Online

“The Namibian government sold 7.2 metric tons of ivory for $1.2 million, or an average price of $164 a kilo, to Chinese and Japanese buyers in what was the first of four auctions by southern African governments over the two weeks. The proceeds from the sales of the ivory — confiscated as contraband or collected after the culling of “problem elephants” — will go towards funding conservation efforts. “- mongabay

“Meanwhile, the Los Angeles City Council is preparing for public hearings on a proposal to liberate Billy the elephant from the L.A. Zoo and spend $10 million or so for a sanctuary in the San Fernando Valley where Billy and his friends can run free. ” – The Daily Breeze