Indian Elephants Fight Losing Battle with Man
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GUWAHATI, India  - It is an unexpected headache  for the Indian army, an unlikely embarrassment for the  government and an unwelcome challenge for the railways  department.
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By DANIEL LOVERING Associated Press Writer BANGKOK, Thailand . The African elephant has a new line of defense against poachers after a global wildlife conference approved measures aimed at wiping out the continent&#39;s illegal ivory trade.
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San Francisco officials pondered  on Thursday whether to stop keeping elephants in the city's zoo  as activists pushed for a ban amid concerns about their  conditions in captivity.
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Researchers say elephants can tell whether a human is a friend or foe by their scent and colour of clothing.
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(Correcting number in headline from 200 to 400. A corrected version of the item follows)  Text of report by Radio France Internationale on 6 June  [Chadian President] Idriss Deby Itno has deployed 400 regular army soldiers to defend the elephant population decimated by poachers.
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Elephants use their feet to &quot;hear&quot; calls from other herds but react most if the calls come from elephants they know, New Scientist reports.
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West Bengal state in India is to begin a birth control programme for elephants because it lacks funds for their upkeep.
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Robert Culp's lawsuit alleging that the Los Angeles Zoo mistreats elephants can go forward.
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The substitution of mammoth ivory for elephant ivory presents an unusual example of how conservation of one limited resource could  lead to the uncontrolled, and perhaps catastrophic, exploitation of another.
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A Pakistani zoo is appealing for donations to help feed its sole elephant, Suzi, which gets angry and beats its keeper with a stick when its meals are late.
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PILANESBERG NATIONAL PARK, South Africa -- Ecologist Rudi van Aarde leaned back on a veranda that overlooked dry grasslands and a group of bull elephants, his shoes still dusty from an 8,000-mile tour of game reserves in southern Africa. Van Aarde was on a mission: saving elephants from sanctioned killings.
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BANGALORE, India -- For three generations, two families have fought over an acre of farmland in an arid stretch of southern India, each waving documents to support its claim.
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ROYAL OAK, Mich. The Detroit Zoo is considering what to do with two elderly elephants after its efforts to move the elephants to a sanctuary were rebuffed.
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Calcutta, Sept. 29: Sharad Pawarâs one-day match is over but his defeat has thrown up the first-ever formidable challenge to the way Indiaâs cricket establishment decides who should run it.
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A new study is the latest salvo in a long-standing debate over what wiped out the giant elephantlike animals.
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Rahul Khanna, on learning from PETA of the elephant who was badly injured by the truck in Chembur
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COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh  - Wild elephants straying into a Bangladesh village killed a man, injured another and trampled several homes on Saturday, forest officials said.