Legal action possible in elephant fight
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The struggle over the fate of two aging elephants at the Detroit Zoo might move to a new battleground, the zoo director said Friday.
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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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With a clash of mallets and the stomping of jumbo feet that shook the earth, the game was under way. Tense commands were shouted by pith helmeted players tied firmly to their two-ton mounts. The beasts collided and the ball disappeared in a forest of elephantine legs, raising some dust and much laughter. We had just witnessed a classic scrum in the whacky sport of elephant polo.
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Ambika, one of the oldest Asian elephants in North America, has suffered from recent health problems but seems to be improving, the National Zoo said Thursday.
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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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Herds growing: South African farmers say they are destructive and dangerous. In the West, they are perhaps the most beloved of the big game species. So a proposal to cull the expanding elephant population is controversial. A12  U.S. attorneys: One of eight U.S.
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[Sports India, Cricket] New Delhi, Sep 22 : ESPN-STAR Sports Wednesday threatened to sue Zee Telefilms Ltd. if it did not apologise for alleging it had &quot;colluded&quot; the Indian cricket board in the ongoing battle for India&#39;s international television rights.
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RENO, Nev. - It's not all checking hunting and fishing licenses. Sometimes the issues are bigger. Like when a Nevada game warden was handed the chore of figuring out how to separate two bull elk who locked horns while sparring and couldn't untangle them.  The saga began Nov.
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BANGKOK, Thailand - Three people driving through a Thai national park got too close for comfort to a herd of wild elephants who kicked and damaged their vehicles, authorities said Thursday.    The two men and one woman, driving in two pickup trucks through the Khao Yai National Park Wednesday evening, encountered a herd of more than 10 wild elephants, looking for food on the side of the road, said a national park official, speaking on condition of anonymity...
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Residents in three villages apply for an injunction to prevent animal rights extremists entering the area.
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BANG NIENG, Thailand -- A year ago, they were filming battle scenes for the movie &quot;Alexander.&quot; Now six elephants are pitching in to help with the massive cleanup from the tsunami that devastated many of Thailand's prime tourist destinations.
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An international effort to halt the illegal killing of elephants for their ivory tusks has all but collapsed in most of Africa, leaving officials and advocates alarmed about the survival of the species. A study  released  yesterday estimates that as many as 23,000 of the animals were slaughtered...
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Oxford University succeeds  in gaining a continuation of a wide-ranging injunction against animal rights activists.
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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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BATAM, Indonesia  - Activists are considering   legal action against Singapore, accusing the government of   violating human rights after police held members incommunicado   before deporting them, an activist said on Saturday.
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They give a whole new meaning to things that go bump in the night. Elephants have recently taken to blocking a highway frequently used by produce trucks in Thailand but which also runs through the Ang Lue Nai wildlife reserve.
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Travel: Gwladys Fouche joins a mahout training course at an elephant camp in the heart of Laos. But it soon becomes apparent that two days won't be enough.