A video of elephants from the Elephant Plains Lodge in South Africa. The baby elephant is SO cute acting like he is so tough.

Researchers are attempting to reproduce the rumbling sound made by a female in heat in order to stop rampaging males and keep them from being killed.

BBC NEWS

British trophy hunters have been paying Mugabe’s corrupt regime in Zimbabwe to participate in elephant culls. The hunters participate in tracking and killing the elephants and have their photos taken with the dead animals. Not only do I find culling abhorrent but I also find it deplorable that anyone would give Mugabe any money.

The Times of India

“The elephant population in Northern Kenya has increased by five per cent since the last count in 2002.” – DAILY NATION

“The elephant population in the expansive Northern Kenya has increased by 5 per cent since the last count in 2002, according to the latest census report released Saturday.” – Africa Science News Service

“Over the years WWF in collaboration with the North Carolina Zoo has been deploying satellite collars on elephants in the Southeast and other parts of Cameroon. The collars provide information via satellite on the movement pattern of elephants essential for the conservation of this charismatic mega vertebrate.” – AfricaNews

“Kenya’s high court on Friday awarded a British woman 65 million shillings (£533,000) in damages after she was attacked and seriously wounded by an elephant while staying at a safari lodge in 2000. ” – (via) Telegraph

“Dr. Joyce Poole-who has lived with elephants in Africa’s savannah for more than 27 years-described her experiences to more than 100 people Saturday at ARK 2000, the Performing Animal Welfare Society sanctuary. She recounted her time spent working on the Amboseli Elephant Research Project at Amboseli National Park in Kenya, a 57-square-mile park near Mount Kilimanjaro. Her work there is part of one of the longest-running research projects concentrating on wild elephants.” – Calaveras Enterprise

“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

“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

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

“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

“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

“Ivory went on sale legally yesterday for the first time in almost a decade when the southern African state of Namibia auctioned seven tonnes of elephant tusks exclusively to Chinese and Japanese buyers. ” – Times Online

“The first officially sanctioned sale of ivory in southern Africa for almost a decade opened on Tuesday.” – BBC NEWS

“African forest elephants live in fear of roads which they associate with poachers and death, scientists have discovered.” – Telegraph

“The sale of 51 tons of stockpiled ivory will benefit elephant research, conservation and community development, according to the South African National Parks (SANParks).” – BuaNews