“Fourteen badly burnt young elephants rescued from a wildfire in the Pilanesberg National Park are caught in a tug of war between conservationists about whether they should be put out of their misery.” – Mail & Guardian Online

“The Kruger National Park wants to shoot up to 6 000 elephants as part of a national culling programme that could start next winter, the Mail & Guardian has learnt.” – Mail & Guardian Online

“Elephants and buffaloes are dying of starvation in a wildlife-rich area of western Zimbabwe, the state-controlled Herald reported on Friday.” – Mail & Guardian Online

“Researchers in Kenya and South Africa are using cellphone technology to gather information on elephants, cheetahs, leopards and other animals.” – Mail & Guardian Online

“In an interview published on Thursday in the state-controlled Herald newspaper, Minister of the Environment Francis Nhema said the tigers were in return for Zimbabwe giving China breeding animals such as zebra, elephants and impala.” – Mail & Guardian Online

“Rangers from the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) have arrested three suspects and seized 22 elephant tusks they were trying to sell in the southeastern part of the country, KWS said on Tuesday.” – Mail & Guardian Online

“The Kenya Wildlife Service will relocate 400 elephants to Kenya’s largest national park, from a smaller national reserve in the country’s south-east that has too many elephants, a spokesperson said on Monday.” – Mail & Guardian Online

“An envelope leaking a strange pinkish powder sparked an alert in a Paris suburban post office this week, but tests revealed the substance to be nothing more than desiccated elephant dung, police said on Thursday.” – Mail & Guardian Online

“Crouched in the vine-tangled forest of Borneo, where the brightest part of the day seems like dusk, Elis Tambing finally got the elusive animal in his laser sight and fired.” – Mail & Guardian Online

“An elephant handler was killed by a bull elephant at the Knysna Elephant Park on Tuesday during a morning excursion, the International Fund for Animal Welfare said on Wednesday.” – Mail & Guardian Online

“If you own an elephant and don’t know how to keep it happy, you could learn a few lessons from Parbati Barua, Asia’s only female mahout (elephant handler).” – Mail & Guardian Online: