Elephant meat: popular, and a threat
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The markets in the Central African Republic offer all of the jungle's delicacies, including monkey, chimpanzee, antelope and, if you have the cash, even elephant.
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Eating BSE-infected meat could lead to people developing different types of CJD, research suggests.
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Despite a 1989 ban on the slaughter of elephants for their tusks, the illegal ivory trade is as brisk as ever. In an effort to step up efforts to protect elephants, researchers have been using genetic technology
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Science & environment: Demand for food in refugee camps is leading to an unprecedented massacre of local wildlife, new reports claim. Stuart Coles investigates
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Touting tofu chowder and vegetarian sushi as alternatives, animal-rights activists have launched a novel campaign arguing that fish &#151; contrary to stereotype &#151; are intelligent, sensitive animals no more deserving of being eaten than a pet dog or cat.
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Scientists have unveiled a new hi-tech weapon to help combat the illegal trade of ivory in Africa: a map. The map describes how the genetic profiles of African elephants vary across the continent, from the
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Many endangered species are under threat from growing prosperity in China, where exotic animals are butchered for gourmet banquets, exotic medicines or luxury goods.
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GUWAHATI, India  - An elephant named "Osama bin Laden" that has killed 27 people in northeast India, has been shot dead, triggering protests by conservationists who say forestry officials had probably shot the wrong animal.
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Result? Fried pachyderm A herd of 40 Indian elephants which quaffed rice wine, "went berserk" as a result and rampaged round a village looking for food, suffered six fatalities after toppling an electricity pole, the West Australian reports.â¦
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Science & environment: Universities and medical schools have been criticised for increasing the number of animals used in research.
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Conservationists hope chillies and hi-tech geophones will help protect fields from elephants in Congo Republic, where villagers are fed up with pachyderms eating their crops.
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FORT WORTH, Texas - The tsunami victims in Asia will be getting some help from an elephant who was born in Thailand but now resides at the Fort Worth Zoo.  An original work of art by Rasha, a 7,000-pound elephant, will be auctioned off on e-Bay beginning at noon Wednesday.
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First bird flu made eating poultry worrisome. Next it was tainted pork. Pesticides in vegetables. Toxic additives in processed foods.
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Analyzing the DNA of elephants may help trace the origins of ivory being sold illegally, information researchers hope will help foil such trade.
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By ARTHUR MAX THE HAGUE, Netherlands - If you think the problem of endangered species is all about tigers, elephants and orangutans, ask a violinist where he gets his bow.
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The complex science of DNA analysis is now helping protect elephants by showing police and conservationists the source of black-market ivory.
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Wild elephants electrocuted as they go berserk after drinking rice beer in India's remote north-east.