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  • March 2008

    • Illegal Poaching Funds Militant Groups

      Newsweek  |  Mar 2, 08 6:35 PM CST

      Illegal Poaching Funds Militant Groups

      (Newser) - Shipments of African contraband such as ivory, tiger parts, and rhino horn are funding militant groups and perhaps terrorists, Newsweek reports. After the theft of $1.3 million in ivory in Chad last year and a reported rise in contraband smuggling, US lawmakers have become interested: A House hearing on the wildlife trade is scheduled to start next week. More »

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      Darfur  • endangered species  • poaching  • Janjaweed  • elephants  • ivory  • terrorist groups  • militias  • rhinoceros  • Bengal tigers

  • February 2008

    • South Africa to Lift Ban on Killing Elephants

      Guardian (UK)  |  Feb 25, 08 4:40 PM CST

      South Africa to Lift Ban on Killing Elephants

      (Newser) - South Africa will lift its 1994 ban on elephant culling, sparking outrage among animal rights activists, the Guardian reports. Killing animals will remain "the option of last resort, acceptable only under strict conditions," said the environment minister. He added that managing the elephant population, which has grown to 20,000 from 8,000 since the ban was instated, "has been devilishly complex." More »

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      environment  • South Africa  • overpopulation  • elephants  • population control

  • December 2007

    • Elephant Squad Keeps the Peace

      Wall Street Journal  |  Dec 6, 07 2:46 PM CST

      Elephant Squad Keeps the Peace

      (Newser) - Conflicts between elephant and man are common in Indonesia, fueled by the establishment of plantations ever-deeper into the Sumatran jungle. Since 2002, 42 people and 100 elephants have died in clashes, the Wall Street Journal reports. Enter the “Flying Squad,” four trained elephants and their keepers who patrol the jungle borders, forcing dangerous wild herds away from human areas. More »

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      Indonesia  • elephants  • World Wildlife Fund  • elephant habitat

  • October 2007

    • 'I Spy' With My Little Eye: an Elephant

      Associated Press  |  Oct 31, 07 7:27 PM CDT

      'I Spy' With My Little Eye: an Elephant

      (Newser) - Robert Culp, best known for his 1960s TV show "I Spy," in which he starred with Bill Cosby, has sued the Los Angeles Zoo and accused it of being cruel to elephants. He seeks to stop the zoo from building a $40-million elephant exhibit.  A judge allowed Culp's suit to proceed, and his lawyer called it "a great day for elephants." More »

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      Los Angeles  • zoo  • elephants  • Bill Cosby

  • July 2007

    • Elephants Go on the Offense in Africa

      Times (UK)  |  Jul 15, 07 12:57 PM CDT

      Elephants Go on the Offense in Africa

      (Newser) - Elephants are now endangering Southern Africans, as attacks on humans increase and the creatures savage farms. While tourists tend to see the mammoths as cuddly and harmless, Africans tell the Times that the peril is becoming an elephant in the room. "Elephants are horrible things to live next door to," one expert says. "I think we should kill them," adds a villager. More »

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      Africa  • elephants  • ivory

  • June 2007

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