41. 26/2/2002 -- Thailand's Wild Elephants Could Be Wiped Out In 15 Years: Report Thailand's wild elephants could be wiped out in 15 years report SourceCopyright 2002, Agence France Presse Date February nbsp26, nbsp2002. http://forests.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=8271

42. Tigress : Programmes : In The Wild - Asian Elephants With Goldie Hawn Though it is revered in Hinduism and Buddhism, the Asian elephant is in serioustrouble; two thirds of India’s wild elephants have been killed in the last http://www.tigressproductions.co.uk/programmes/inthewild/elephants.html

Oscar winning actress Goldie Hawn loves everything about India, but is especially captivated by Asian elephants. Seven years ago she travelled to India and saw a very special wild elephant which stayed in her heart and mind. Now she returns to discover more about these endangered animals, and to try to find her special elephant again. Goldie begins with an offering to the elephant-god Ganesh for good luck, and then moves to meet with Asian elephant advocate, Mark Shand, and his elephant, Tara. Overcoming her fear of getting close to the gentle giant, Goldie is thrilled to find herself bathing her and learning to ride her. Other "In the Wild" Programmes White Elephants with Meg Ryan Polar Bears with Ewan McGregor Orangutans with Julia Roberts Cheetahs with Holly Hunter ... contact us

43. Tigress : Programmes : In The Wild - White Elephants With Meg Ryan Programmes In the wild White elephants with Meg Ryan, Reviews .Eternal optimist, Meg Ryan's mission is to head into the jungles http://www.tigressproductions.co.uk/programmes/inthewild/whiteelephants.html

Eternal optimist, Meg Ryan's mission is to head into the jungles of Thailand to find one of the rarest animals in the world - the White Elephant. In the course of her journey, Meg Ryan meets scientists, conservationists and elephant enthusiasts and learns about the wide-ranging efforts being made to secure the future of Thailand's elephants. Meg gains hands-on experience as an elephant 'mahout', or personal driver, before making an elephant journey into the heart of the jungle. As for the special White Elephant, Meg begins to understand how these rare and beautiful creatures have captured the imagination of people for centuries and remain one of the most prized possessions of His Majesty the King of Thailand. Will Meg's dream to find one of these elusive creatures come true? Other "In the Wild" Programmes Whales with Christopher Reeve Polar Bears with Ewan McGregor Orangutans with Julia Roberts Cheetahs with Holly Hunter ... contact us

44. How Domesticated Elephants Can Help Their Wild Relations How domesticated elephants can help their wild relations. Lair argues that thetroubled domestic populations could help save Asia's wild elephants. http://www.fao.org/News/1998/wild-e.htm

How domesticated elephants can help their wild relations It is not only Asia's domesticated elephant population that is in crisis . The wild population in many countries is "severely threatened by habitat destruction, poaching and fragmentation into small, isolated groups",according to Richard C. Lair's new book, "Gone Astray: the care and management of the Asian elephant in domesticity". Calves born in captivity can be released to bolster wild numbers Poachers hunt bull elephants for their tusks. And elephants in Thailand, for example, have just begun to be killed in response to crop raiding. Reports from the Thai border with Myanmar strongly suggest that sometimes cow elephants are shot solely so that the hunters might capture and sell their calves. Lair argues that the troubled domestic populations could help save Asia's wild elephants. The Asian elephant has never been selectively bred. Unlike what happened with cattle or horses, for example, people have never systematically chosen elephants to mate to create an ideal temperament or physical type. As a result, the domesticated elephant remains genetically a true wild animal. Also, because most elephants are taken out at night to feed and rest in nature, held only by a tethering chain, perhaps two out of three are preconditioned to the wild and would survive if released. It is as if there were thousands of tigers or Sumatran rhinos or any other endangered species kept by villagers in anticipation of release, a resource unique in wildlife conservation.

45. Friends Of Animals International Programs Due to demand for wildlife products, elephants are not the only African wild animalfacing serious problems. The plight of the rhinoceros is well known. http://www.friendsofanimals.org/global/eleph.htm

A lthough the passage of an international ban on the ivory trade in 1989 was a major step toward improved protection for African elephants, this protection has been removed due to political maneuvering which began at the 10th Conference of the Parties (COP10), held in Zimbabwe in June, 1997. Photo by Michael Bisceglie Attempts to further erode the ivory ban were beaten back when Friends of Animals lobbied against proposals to grant ivory quotas to the southern African countries of Zimbabwe, Namibia, Botswana and South Africa at COP 11 held in Nairobi, Kenya, in April 2000. But the COP meeting in Santiago, Chile in November 2002 resulted in dismantling the ivory prohibition by authorizing the governments of Botswana, South Africa and Namibia to sell ivory stocks. (See FoA's CITES page.) Photo by Michael Bisceglie There are still a number of serious difficulties facing the great pachyderm. These magnificent animals are still being killed, and the future of the species is still at risk. In some African countries, elephants are legally shot on safari by American and European trophy hunters. Elsewhere, elephants are shot because they are considered a nuisance to agriculture, or because some ignorant and obtuse park manager thinks the elephants are simply eating too much vegetation. And every day, the elephants of Africa lose more and more of their habitat. New villages and farmlands cut their traditional migration routes. Irrigation schemes drain their drinking and bathing pools.

46. BBC News | SCI/TECH | Wild Elephants Given Novel Contraceptive Wednesday, 13 September, 2000, 1807 GMT 1907 UK wild elephants given novel contraceptiveLarge herds cause problems for humans and other wildlife A novel http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/923553.stm

low graphics version feedback help You are in: Sci/Tech Front Page World UK ... AudioVideo Professor Richard Fayrer-Hosken "It's safe and reversible" real Ian Whyte, senior scientist, Kruger National Park "It's just like a little flu shot" real Wednesday, 13 September, 2000, 18:07 GMT 19:07 UK Wild elephants given novel contraceptive Large herds cause problems for humans and other wildlife A novel contraceptive has been tested successfully on elephants in South Africa's famous Kruger National Park. Researchers believe the new approach will help rangers control numbers where elephant populations are on the increase after the ivory ban. Very large herds can cause major disruption, trampling crops and damaging the vegetation on which other wildlife depend. Effective contraceptive control would remove the need to cull elephants, a practice that is both distressing and politically difficult. Pig's eggs Professor Richard Fayrer-Hosken, at the University of Georgia in Athens, US, and colleagues have developed an immuno-contraceptive vaccine which works in a very different way to the more familiar hormone contraceptives. Instead stopping ovulation, the vaccine makes the elephant's immune system produce antibodies that prevent fertilisation from taking place.

47. Elephants And Humans – Manufacturing Discontent We can continue to disturb natural habitats and then solve the problems by shootingleopards, tigers, elephants, wild boar, nilgai and what have you as some http://www.indianjungles.com/180303b.htm

Elephants and humans – Manufacturing discontent Bittu Sahgal puts the issue very well in this message, related to the news item appended below. Time and again we are faced with the problem of dislocated elephants clashing with people. Our answer is to shoot killer elephants and translocate others. There will be no end to this if our forests continue to be eaten away by people. In fact, many wildlife experts across the world believe that translocation itself (like culling) is a copout following our own failure to protect forests. Nirmal Ghosh T hrough history, elephants have never been known to degrade their own habitats. Like most other animals, in the process of mere everyday life, they create more food and resources for the next generation than they consume. However, when their migratory routes are disturbed, or when their habitats are degraded by humans to the point where the pachyderms cannot access adequate food or water, elephants are forced to accellerate the destruction of wild habitats. Most man animal conflicts today arise from the fact that someone, somewhere tampered with wild habitats, without caring about the consequences of their actions. This largely involves such developments as canals, dams, mines, townships, monocultures, deforestation etc. After the developers have done their bit, elephants and locals are nonchalantly left to manage the mess left behind by bad land managers and in the process much suffering ensues, as this report so graphically confirms.

48. Causes That Matter : (TAKE ACTION) Prevent Wild Elephants From Being Captured Fo Causes that Matter, take action! The San Diego Zoo and the Lowry Park Zoo planto import 11 elephants who will be captured from their homeland in Africa. http://www.causesthatmatter.com/AnimalProtection/AnimalProtection.cfm?ID=436&c=3

49. Causes That Matter: (TAKE ACTION) Prevent Wild Elephants From Being Captured For AnimalProtection.cfm?ID=436 c=31. (TAKE ACTION) Prevent wild ElephantsFrom Being Captured for Zoos (PETA) August 14, 2002. The San Diego Zoo http://www.causesthatmatter.com/news/NewsPrint.cfm?ID=436&c=31

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51. Wild Elephants Pose Hazard To Indian Voters - FEB 12, 2003 wild elephants pose hazard to Indian voters SHILLONG (India) Electionofficials in India are used to coping with separatist rebels http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/asia/story/0,4386,171282-1045087140,00.html

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52. Asian Elephant The IUCN's Species Survival Commission's Asian Elephant Specialist Group estimatesthat there are approximately 38,000 to 51,000 wild Asian elephants. http://www.thewildones.org/Animals/elephant.html

ASIAN ELEPHANTS Elephas maximus Subspecies: indicus, maximus, sumatranus "Asian Cow and Calf" Photo by Doug Pernikoff Vocabulary: depigmentation poaching musth matriarchal ... infrasonic "Biligiri seemed unsure of what to do with himself. The entire afternoon he had been hesitant, shuffling up and down the welltrodden path that ran through the jungle to the pond. He listened to sounds of music and laughter, of a child wailing, the squeak of a wheel cranking up a bucket of water from a well, of wet clothes being beaten against a stone, but he did not really take them in. Not today. They seemed rather jumbled. He was undergoing a strange transformation, a transformation which was perfectly normal for his age, though he did not know it. His entire body was alight, there was a dull ache in his temples, his blood seemed to rush with a new urgency. For the first time he was in musth. And he was confused, like other sixteen year olds. Biligiri was an adolescent wild male Asian elephant. He was at Kyatedevaragudi in the Biligirirangan hills of southern India. The date was 19 January 1983." (Excerpted from "Elephant Crossing Sign from Indonesia"

53. National Zoo/ FONZ decline and increasing threats to the remaining wild populations, little informationis available on the true number of elephants in the wild, the extent of http://natzoo.si.edu/ConservationAndScience/ConservationGIS/projects/asian_eleph

Home Conservation GIS Projects Asian Elephants ... Asian Elephant Interactive Maps Focus on Science Weekend Saki monkey born in the Small Mammal House Spotlight on Zoo Science Spring Science Lectures at CRC Never Forgetting: Elephants and Ethics, An International Conference Population Regulation in Migratory Birds Climate Change and its Effect on Migratory Birds Track Silver Moon! To help save wild Asian elephants in Myanmar, Zoo scientists are tracking female elephant Silver Moon through the jungle. Now, you can track Silver Moon's travels too. National Zoo Accreditation Conservation Atlas Amazon GIS Asian Elephants ... Conservation GIS Home Related Resources Zoo Scientific Publications Learn more about Smithsonian Natural History Museum Tropical Research Institute Environmental Research Center Regional Conservation Assessments for Endangered Asian Elephants Asian elephant populations are declining rapidly. Recent estimates place wild elephant population to be between 30,000-40,000. Once abundant throughout all of Southeast Asia, these elephants are now only found in small pockets of remaining wild habitat widely dispersed across 13 countries. Ivory poaching is a grave problem for elephant conservation, but the most serious threat to the remaining wild populations comes from continued habitat loss due to increasing population pressures, agricultural land conversion, replacement of forests by palm oil plantation, and large-scale commercial logging and deforestation.

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56. Wild Elephant Quest / Elephants elephants have played a part in human lives since ancient times. Tusksare found on all African elephants but only on the Asian males. http://www.affno.lk/elephantquest/elephant.htm

Elephants have a row of six molars on each side of their jaws. Whenever a tooth falls another one moves up and replaces it. This continues until the last tooth drops, usually when an elephant is about sixty years old, after which it is no longer able to eat. The elephant's brain is larger at birth than any other mammals. They have poor eyesight but this is balanced by their sharp sense of hearing and smell. The elephant's trunk is its most striking feature and it is used for breathing, eating and drinking. The elephant lives in a matriarchal society. The matriarch is the oldest elephant in the herd. Elephant families usually consist of two or three females along with their infants and pre-adult offspring. Males usually start moving away from the group as they grow older, eventually leaving their families and roaming alone or finding their way to a band of bulls.

57. Wild Elephants Threaten Election In Indian State. 11/2/2003. ABC News Online Tuesday, February 11, 2003. Posted 202353 (AEDT). wild elephantsthreaten election in Indian state. Election officials in India http://abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s782051.htm

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58. The Return Of Young Elephants To The Wild wild elephants have time and again been the recipients of cruelty and abuse, especiallythe in the form of killing female elephants in order to sell their http://www.levantenet.com/wildlifefund/funding/young_elephants.html

Background Currently, the survival of the Asian Wild Elephant is reaching a state of profound crisis. Wild elephants have time and again been the recipients of cruelty and abuse, especially the in the form of killing female elephants in order to sell their young for commercial gain. This causes wild elephants to become domesticated, and forces them into a life of hardship and suffering. Killing female elephants and removing their young also drastically reduces the population of wild elephants, to the point were it is now feared that the genetic material needed to carry on the species in the wild will disappear. In 1997 Wildlife Fund Thailand (WFT) had the opportunity to assist a baby orphaned wild elephant named Pangthurian. Aged approximately one year old, Pangthurian was born in Khuyburi National Park, Prachuabsirikhan Province. Although Pangthurian has survived and received care enough to grow and develop at a normal rate, it is feared that if he continues to live in domestication for a prolonged period of time he will lose his natural instincts and be unable to survive in the wild. Pangthurian will mature into a fully domesticated elephant dependent on human care, rather then a wild elephant living in harmony with the forest. WFT has therefor designed the following project to prepare and release orphaned wild elephants back into the forest, starting with the case of Pangthurian. It is hoped that this project will be one part of a greater strategy of promoting environmental management and wildlife conservation that is in harmony with the balance of nature.

59. Vietnam's Wild Elephants - 9/14/2000 - ENN.com Vietnam's wild elephants Trinh Viet Cuong is in a desperate race against timeto do what he can to save Vietnam’s wild elephants from extinction. http://www.enn.com/enn-features-archive/2000/09/09142000/vietelephants_14308.asp

Site Index: Home News ENN Earthnews Affiliates News In-Depth Topics Interact Online Quizzes Postcards Marketplace Advanced Search Advertise Join ENN e-mail Subscription Take our Survey Affiliate Tech Center Post Press Release Help About ENN Site Map Vietnam's wild elephants Thursday, September 14, 2000 By Andrea Pawlyna Their population decimated by poaching and their habitat reduced by widespread deforestation and development, the elephants have been squeezed on all sides. Cuong photographed these wild elephants on a survey of Vietnam's Quang Nam province. Continued on page 2 Toolbox Printer-friendly version E-mail this story to a friend Paid advertisment Talk Back Let us know what you think about this story in ENN's Forum Discussion Area. Only about 100 elephants still roam freely in Vietnam, down from as many as 1,500 to 2,000 a decade ago. Home News In-Depth Interact ... Site Map

60. In The Wild - The Elephants Of India With Goldie Hawn (1998) IN THE wild THE elephants OF INDIA WITH GOLDIE HAWN (1998) reviewsfrom the nation's top critics and audiences. Also includes http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/IntheWildTheElephantsofIndiaWithGoldieHawn-10804

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