“The old elephant is causing traffic chaos by not letting cars pass by him unless they give him food.” – WCAU

“A wild elephant in India’s eastern state of Orissa has been waylaying motorists who complain that the animal refuses to let their vehicles pass unless they give it food, a media report said on Monday.” – Mail & Guardian Online

“An elephant in eastern India has sparked complaints from motorists who accuse it of blocking traffic and refusing to allow vehicles to pass unless drivers give it food, a newspaper reported on Monday.” – Reuters

“A wild elephant killed a villager in India’s remote northeast while another of the animals chased fishermen in a swamp, authorities said Saturday, as habitat destruction forces the elephants to seek food in populated areas.” – International Herald Tribune

“A government study in India has shown elephants prefer food crops to forest fodder and often travel hundreds of miles to the same farmland every year, even remembering specific months of harvesting.” – Reuters AlertNet

“With the summer too hot, and with prevailing drought and forest fires, clusters of elephants and other wild animals of Karnataka and Kerala forests are wandering in search for drinking water and food.” – DNA

“The difficulty of finding food during the dry season has driven a group of wild elephants from Chachoengsao’s Khao Ang Rue-Nai Wildlife Sanctuary to resort to snatching sugar cane and tapioca from passing trucks, a local forestry official said Saturday.” – The Nation Multimedia

“A wild elephant looking for food killed three people and injured another 10 on Sunday in a forest range in eastern India, police said.” – International Herald Tribune

“A wild elephant looking for food killed three people and injured another 10 in a forest range in eastern India today, police said.” – Ireland Online

“Elephants are disrupting farming activities in Liberia’s northern Lofa County, an official told Deutsche Presse- Agentur dpa Wednesday. The special assistant to the Superintendent of Lofa County, George Tengbeh, said that the animals, which are found in large numbers in the Lofa Forest, usually invade farms in search of food, scaring the farmers away.” – The Raw Story

“African savannah elephants avoid traipsing up hills, even if the hills have an abundance of food, according to a study that tracked the animals’ movements over several years.” – National Geographic News

“It is unbelievable this Elephant Village is just 2.5 km far away from downtown. When you are on Petchkasem Road passing Chatchat Market, turn to Hua Hin Nongphlap Road, the same journey to go to Pala-U Waterfall. The village is in the embrace of mountains, forest and watercourse. When you visit here, you will feed food to elephants, go elephant trekking, see the elephant shows, such as, elephant dancing, elephant football game, elephant playing music, elephant fighting, etc. ” – Hua Hin Today

“Dalma is home to a large number of elephants, explained a forest official, but many of them migrate to Chhattisgarh and other neighbouring states this time of the year in search of food and water. This makes it difficult to spot wild creatures in the sanctuary.” – The Telegraph

“Sri Lanka’s most celebrated elephant has fallen ill after eating scores of biscuits, chocolates and other rich food offered to him ahead of the Buddhist new year celebrations, which start tomorrow.” – Guardian Unlimited

“WWF has discovered that ten endangered wild Sumatran elephants are being kept chained to trees without enough food or water in central Riau in Indonesia, having been made homeless by the complete destruction of their forest. The elephants were raiding crops and threatening a nearby village before being captured by local authorities ten days ago.” – WWF

“Poor villagers and wild elephants are engaged in an increasingly bitter battle for space and food in Zambia, with animal conservation authorities accused of doing little to end the conflict.” – IOL

“Elephants in Kenyan national parks and reserves are leaving their drought-stricken sanctuaries to search for water and food near human settlements, where they have attacked starving people trying to protect their crops.” – ABC News

“Zimbabwe, which is struggling with chronic shortages in everything from fuel to food, claims that it has at least one huge surplus – elephants. The Government?s wildlife and parks department says that there are 60,000 more elephants than can be sustained in the wild and has invited local farmers to buy them to populate remote ranches and private game reserves.” – ZWNEWS.com