Deal cut on elephants and ivory
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African countries have agreed a deal on the immediate future of the ivory trade.
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Government rejects petition to allow elephants to be kept as pets
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Culling and contraceptives are options South Africa is considering to limit an elephant population boom.
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A decision to be made this weekend on whether to allow the sale of 60 tons of elephant ivory is exposing rifts between nongovernment agencies dedicated to defending the diversity of plants and animals.
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African nations are engaged in last-ditch negotiations on elephants and ivory as the CITES meeting nears its end.
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The death of an elderly elephant that was brought to the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago two years ago adds to the already contentious debate over whether elephants belong in northern zoos with cold winters.
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A United Nations wildlife pact has  allowed the export of 60 tonnes of ivory from three southern  African countries to Japan amid concerns about the growth of  the illegal ivory trade and elephant poaching in parts of  Africa.
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A UN forum on Thursday approved a landmark nine-year ban on international ivory trade to stem a surge in poaching that has killed up to 20,000 elephants per year.
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Virgin Atlantic chairman Sir Richard Branson on Saturday announced a programme aimed at saving elephants in Kenya, as he boarded his airline&#39;s first flight to the east African nation.
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There is a disagreement concerning the future of two elephants at the Detroit Zoo: a sanctuary or the Columbus Zoo. The American Zoo and Aquarium Association in Washington has
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Bickering African countries remained deadlocked Tuesday on whether to ease an 18-year international ban on ivory sales, with opponents warning it will increase the poaching threat in places where elephants have almost disappeared.
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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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BANGKOK, Oct 14 (IPS) - The enlarged European Union instead of being a  formidable ally to conservationists  involved in saving the  African elephant, has ironically become a stumbling block to the   survival of the endangered species.
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KAMPALA, Uganda Feb. 28 -- South African wildlife officials on Wednesday proposed new elephant management rules that would allow burgeoning populations to be culled, a controversial practice banned since 1994 as unnecessarily cruel to the beloved but destructive animals.
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Online auction giant eBay is set to ban ivory trade from its websites, as pressure mounts to eradicate illegal traffic in endangered species from the Internet, participants at the world forum regulating wildlife commerce said Tuesday.
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The environment minister proposed a package of measures Wednesday to slow rampant elephant population growth &#151; including limited killing and contraception &#151; but stressed there would be no mass slaughter. The elephant population of 20,000 is growing at a rate of more than 6 percent per year, disrupting the delicate biodiversity in the flagship Kruger National Park and other wildlife parks, Environment Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk said.
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A genetic test that can be used to determine the origin of poached ivory could help combat the illegal trade in elephant tusks and their products.