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Café - Elephants in the Park
2017-12-14 19:39:52| PortlandOnline
Elephants' Café features a healthy take on grilled favorites.
Beautiful Photo Reveals the Undeniable Connection Between Humans and Elephants
2016-06-17 20:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
OneGreenPlanet: Elephants undeniable air of dignity, wisdom and compassion, has led them to become one of the most revered animal species in the world. Few people who have watched members of an elephant herd interacting with one another in the wild or observed the loving bonds that they share could fail to be moved by them. In many ways, elephants emotional lives closely resemble ours. They, too, are closely bonded to their family members, never hesitate to help each other out during times of trouble, and grieve...
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Malawi to relocate 500 elephants to new home
2016-06-07 11:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AJE News: Conservationists in Malawi will next month attempt the largest-ever relocation of elephants in Africa. They will move 500 elephants from two overcrowded wildlife reserves in the country's south to Nkhotakota Wildlife Reserve, a distance of more than 300km. The relocation of the herd by African Parks, a non-profit conservation organisation, is an effort to halt a steep decline in elephant numbers, the result of ivory poaching and loss of habitat. Over the past 20 years, Malawi's elephant...
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Huge News for Elephants: U.S. Bans Ivory Trade
2016-06-03 16:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: President Obama, along with the U.S. Fisheries and Wildlife Service, announced regulations Thursday to ban nearly all commercial elephant ivory trade in the country. This landmark decision, coming from the country with the second-largest market for ivory, should have a significant impact on the trade. The ban helps fulfill President Obama`s 2013 executive order to combat wildlife trafficking. Were excited the Obama administration has taken this important step to reduce the domestic trade...
Elephants in Africa Reserve Will Vanish by 2022 Due to Poaching, WWF Says
2016-06-02 13:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World News: Elephants in one of Africa's largest and oldest reserves are feared to be wiped out by 2022, and this is because of poaching and mining, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) says. Selous national park in Tanzania is a world heritage site and is the oldest in Africa, boasting about 110,000 elephants 40 years ago. But it has already lost an average of about 2,500 elephants a year since 1970. Now, the number has gone down to a critical 15,000 count, according to the latest census. "The population...