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Elephants could vanish from one of Africa's key reserves within six years
2016-06-01 11:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Elephants could disappear from one of Africas most important wildlife reserves within six years unless industrial scale poaching is stopped and mining is brought under control, the WWF has said. Selous national park, a world heritage site in southern Tanzania, has lost an average of almost 2,500 elephants a year since the 1970s. But it has now reached a crtitical stage with only about 15,000 left, according to the latest census. The population is at an historic low. and urgent measures are...
How Palm Oil Has Changed Life for Sumatran Elephants What You Can Do
2016-05-31 11:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
OneGreenPlanet: In the picture below, we witness two starkly different scenes, both occurring in the same land. In the image on top, two elephants share the day in their natural habitat. In the wild, life is good. Time is spent foraging and bonding with loved ones. Family is number one for elephants, as they live in matriarchal herds, with grandmothers, daughters, granddaughters, aunts, nieces, and cousins, all sharing each others company for decades. But those days of happiness and becoming rarer and rarer....
Elephants Delicatessen Headquarters
2016-05-02 20:45:35| PortlandOnline
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Petition to save Malis 300 remaining elephants has topped 73,000
2016-04-22 00:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
IFAW: Thank you for responding in such large numbers to our emergency call to action last month to save the last remaining elephant herd of the Sahel region. To date, more than 73,000 people signed IFAW's petition calling on the Minister of Environment of Mali, Mr. Ousmane Koné, to take urgent action to save these 300 remaining elephants. Recently we were able to deliver the message of this first surge of international mobilisation to the attention of not only Mr Koné, but also to the President of Mali...
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Elephants Wiped Out on Alarming Scale in Southern Africa
2016-04-06 19:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: A chunk of territory in southern Africa about the size of France has long been considered one of the last strongholds of the African elephant. The Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area, better known as KAZA, straddles Angola, Zambia, Namibia, Botswana, and Zimbabwe and was believed to hold as many as 250,000 elephants. But all is not well there. The latest statistics from the Great Elephant Census, an ambitious elephant-counting project led by Microsoft co-founder Paul G. Allen's private...
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