“The Kruger National Park is expected to announce a massive elephant culling programme after the latest census showed the population has doubled since the controversial practice was suspended in 1995″ – Mail & Guardian Online

“Tusker is dead, shot by rangers after New Year’s revellers at a safari camp provoked the elephant into trampling several cars, conservationists said on Monday.” – Mail & Guardian Online

“Sucking up sugar cane with their trunks and circling busy traffic roundabouts, the elephants that roam Thai towns at festival time seem as much at home in the city as in the forest.” – Mail & Guardian Online

“The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (NSPCA) is considering legal steps over proposed norms and standards for managing the elephant population being formulated by the Environmental Affairs and Tourism Department.” – Mail & Guardian Online

“Wildlife groups are furious after Van Schalkwyk visited Elephants for Africa Forever (Efaf), an elephant training outfit that caused an outcry in April last year when it “kidnapped” six elephants aged between six and 12 in the Selati private game reserve.” – Mail & Guardian Online

“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

“SADC countries are proposing the reopening of ivory trade to countries certified as trading partners by the Convention on the International Trade of Endangered Species (Cites). But a conservation group warned this week that the region does not have its own house in order, as domestic sales of ivory continue to thrive.” – Mail & Guardian Online

“That fight has already claimed the lives of several park rangers, as well as many poachers. The effect on Zakouma?s elephant population is also notable: more than 200 have been killed in the past year, many gunned down in large groups by poachers who attack on horse and camelback.” – Mail & Guardian Online

“A British man and wife were critically hurt when they fell off an elephant at a sanctuary in Hartbeespoort on Thursday afternoon, emergency services said.” – Mail & Guardian Online

“The government’s proposed elephant-management regulations could hobble South Africa’s “notorious” elephant-back tourism industry, the International Fund for Animal Welfare (Ifaw) said on Wednesday.” – Mail & Guardian Online

“Coetzee, an internationally renowned veteran game ranger who pioneered techniques to relocate elephants and a wide range of wild animals from habitats affected by drought and environmental degradation, collapsed on Sunday after an early-morning tour of his farm and its wildlife research and breeding pens in the Triangle district, about 400km south-east of Harare.” – Mail & Guardian Online

“A pact for a new transfrontier game park straddling the borders between Botswana, South Africa and Zimbabwe was signed on Thursday.” – Mail & Guardian Online

“Animal activists threatened the Limpopo provincial government with court action this week in a bid to rescue six young elephants plucked heartlessly from their family groups and sent for training at an elephant-back safari outfit.” – Mail & Guardian Online

“Nessie, the Loch Ness monster, is in fact an elephant, according to a Scottish palaeontologist who claims to have solved the riddle surrounding the unexplained sightings of a monster in a lake near Glasgow in Scotland.” – Mail & Guardian Online

“The drought has so far killed at least 60 hippopotamuses in Kenya’s wildlife sanctuaries. The animals — the third-largest living land mammals, after elephants and white rhinos — need large quantities of water or mud to cool bodies, which can weigh up to 3,2 tonnes.” – Mail & Guardian Online

“The Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) said conditions in several of the country’s best-known parks and reserves were such that animals, mainly elephants, were increasingly coming into conflict with residents of nearby villages and farms, posing risks to both the human and fauna populations.
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“In response to an article on elephant culling (?Roll up for the culling circus?), he said, I was using a public platform to ?bash and trash? him. He even accused me of having a ?venomous hatred of? him.” – Mail & Guardian Online

“The eight young elephants that survived burn injuries in veld fires in the Pilanesberg Nature Reserve will be released back into the wild.” – Mail & Guardian