Category — Endangered

“A study from WWF claims that converting the forests and peat swamps of just one Sumatran province into plantations for pulpwood and palm oil is generating more annual greenhouse gas emissions than the Netherlands, and is endangering local elephant and tiger populations.” – guardian.co.uk

“For a team that spends most part of the year chasing elephants from human habitats, the forest department knows without even counting that the number of homeless pachyderms has increased in the past year.” – The Telegraph

“The paper in the Jan. 11 issue of the journal Science is the latest to chronicle one of many patterns to emerge since 1995, when UC Davis ecologist Truman Young fenced elephants and other large herbivores out of 10-acre plots in the central Kenya savannah.” – UC Davis

“Now a study has shown that if elephants, giraffes and other picture-postcard animals disappear from the eastern African savanna, the ecological damage may extend, ironically, to the acacia trees they eat and cascade all the way to down to affect ants too.” – Telegraph

“The Wildlife Department has made arrangements to implement a special project called Gaja Mithuro (Elephants’ friends) to protect wild elephants faced with the threat of extinction and also to uplift the living conditions of families displaced as a result of the human elephant conflict.” – Sri Lanka News

“More than 1,000 elephants are set to gain right of passage through the corridor linking the Edayargalli and Doddasampige reserves when land deeds are handed over to the Karnataka state forest department on Thursday.” – AFP

“Once again Six Flags is making excuses for its failure to protect elephants from harm. In Defense of Animals stands by its report on a deadly elephant virus that zoos don’t want the public to know about. This virus kills 85 percent of the elephants it strikes and has claimed the lives of 10 elephants since 2000, including one at Six Flags in Vallejo.” – Vallejo Times Herald

“The irony is inescapable. In a state that has 75 per cent of the land under forest cover, the giants of the jungle are under serious threat.” – The Hindu

“The Asiatic elephant is spiraling toward extinction in the wild at an extremely alarming rate.” – The Student Operated Press

“Delays in launching projects to save Jharkhand’s elephants have resulted in a steep decline in their numbers in the state.”- India World

“Twenty-nine animal conservationists who have dedicated their lives to saving the Earth?s endangered species have been nominated to receive the Indianapolis Prize, the world?s leading award for animal conservation.” – Inside Indiana

“Efforts to save Sumatran elephants and tigers from extinction gathered steam in Indonesia, with government officials and experts vowing to find ways to protect the species’ dwindling habitat from loggers, farmers and poachers.” – International Herald Tribune

“The population of Sumatran elephants (Elephas maximus sumatranus) in 2007 is estimated to reach between 2,400 and 2,800 heads, or a decrease by 35 percent from the figure in 1992 when there were 5,000 heads, according to an NGO activist.” – ANTARA News

“More than 100 experts and officials met in Indonesia on Wednesday to try to draft an action plan to save Sumatran elephants and tigers threatened with extinction.” – Reuters

“Rescued elephants get the best of care in a sanctuary in South Africa. ” – the star online

“Janice Aria, manager of animal stewardship for Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus, says the Asian elephants were first added to the endangered species list three decades ago. “It is a very grave situation. They estimated there are only 35,000 to 50,000 remaining in the wild. And the situation in the wild gets more grave each year for the elephants. There is tremendous economic development in their range countries. Unfortunately, the elephants don’t fit in.”" – VOA News

“Satellite tracking of pygmy elephants has found that the endangered animals ? unique to Borneo island ? are under threat due to logging and commercial plantations encroaching on their habitat, conservationists said Thursday.” – Discovery Channel

“After the decline in the tiger population, Uttarakhand has now reported a sharp drop of 10 per cent in the number of elephants, mainly tuskers, in the state. ” – Zee News