“Even at 10 acres and $52 million, the Asian Tropics exhibit at the Denver Zoo won’t satisfy all the critics.” – The Denver Post

“The number of elephants worldwide has dropped by 50 percent in the last century, and now the animal is on the endangered species list. Officials at the zoo hope a new $8.5 million expansion will save the species.” – News 14 Carolina

“Beer nuts, paints, perfume, hair products and even three harmonicas contributed to a $6.6 million bill to bring eight asian elephants to Australia.” – Herald Sun

“The Bush administration is awarding 33 grants totaling more than $1.7 million to support conservation of Asian elephants, great apes, rhinoceroses, and tigers in 17 countries.” – Environment News Service (ENS)

“The Department of the Interior has announced that the U.S. government will award 33 international grants totaling more than $1.7 million to support efforts to protect populations of Asian elephants, great apes, rhinoceroses, and tigers in 17 countries.” – About.com

“Taronga Zoo has already spent $15m on one enormous elephant enclosure, which currently houses Gung and four female elephants, but now that he’s nearing puberty, like most boys, he needs his own space.” – The Sunday Telegraph

“It was girls’ playtime at Taronga Zoo and a chance for one-on-one quality time with keepers for our resident Asian elephants in their $38 million enclosure this week.” – The Mosman Daily

“Bob Barker has decided that $500,000 is the right price for him to contribute toward building a foothill retirement home here for an Asian bull elephant named Nicholas. The Performing Animal Welfare Society this week announced the donation by the longtime TV game show host.” – Recordnet.com

“Well known game show host Bob Barker has pledged $500,000 for a new elephant habitat at a San Andreas sanctuary.” – MyMotherLode.com

“Very soon one of the zoo’s beloved elephants could leave Los Angeles according to an NBC4 report.” – NBC4

“The $2 million would be evenly split between costs to renovate the zoo’s veterinary hospital and to make interior upgrades to its historic elephant house that will give more room for the popular pachyderms.” – Buffalo Business First

“Strahl explained that the new elephant exhibit will feature four new outdoor areas for the animals, each of which is four times larger than their current outdoor space, as well as an indoor housing area 10 times larger than their current building.” – Riverside/Brookfield Landmark

“Officials say they’ve never had trouble raising money for single projects, such as the elephant house, for which one unnamed donor recently gave $10 million.” – SignOnSanDiego.com

“Signed, sealed and finally delivered, Taronga Zoo’s new Thai elephants have made a triumphant appearance in their new $38 million Asian enclosure.” – Mosman Daily

“A Forest Hills antique dealer has been charged with illegally selling approximately $15,000 worth of elephant ivory figures and jewelry. Elephants are an endangered species and the sale of more than $1,500 worth of products made from ivory without having first obtained a DEC license or permit is a felony.” – North Country Gazette

“Customs officers at Taiwan’s Kaohsiung Harbor have seized more than two metric tons of illegal elephant ivory, valued at more than US$3.1 million.” – ENS

“The National Zoo has announced plans for a new $60 million “Elephant Trails” exhibit that will dramatically expand and upgrade its current facility for Asian elephants and try to be a centerpiece for breeding and conservation efforts to stop the endangered species from becoming extinct.” – The Boston Globe

“The National Zoo in Washington, D.C., yesterday announced its intention to build a 3.5- acre outdoor area and renovated barn to house 8 to 10 adult Asian elephants and their offspring. While the Zoo’s existing 1930s-era Elephant House and one acre of space is wholly inadequate to meet the complex needs of the three elephants already living there, the expanded exhibit will still not deliver a decent quality of life for elephants even at the estimated cost of $60 million — half of which Americans would pay for with their federal tax dollars.” – IDA eNews: 6/21/06 : Indybay