Elephant Crop Raids Foiled by Chili Peppers, Africa Project Finds
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From rows of planted peppers to smoking "bombs" made of chilies and dung, African farmers are using hot new weapons in their fight against elephant raids.
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Anthrax has killed 18 hippos at a Ugandan national park where nearly 200 of the animals died in the worst mass wildlife deaths from disease three months ago, a government official said on Saturday.
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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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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. In 20 years, the country's elephant population has reduced from 40,000 elephants to 6,000.
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Poaching is up in central Africa, but elephant herds are growing in the south. Nations are arguing over whether to lift the ban on ivory sales.
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Here's a hot, new discovery: archaeologists have traced what they believe is evidence of the first home-grown chili peppers, used in South America 6,100 years ago.
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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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The government of the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh considers plans to send farmers to East Africa.
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A DNA trail has helped investigators trace the largest recent shipment of illegal ivory to elephants in Zambia.
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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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he African elephant population was cut in half by poaching in the 1980&#39;s, and most conservationists agree that only a 1989 ban on the ivory trade saved the animal from extinction.
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A genetic test that can determine the origin of ivory could help combat the illegal trade in elephant tusks and their products.
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Italian mountaintop cervine dopefest Italian police busted two would-be marijuana cultivators after "unusually frisky" deer alerted the authorities as to the presence of their mountaintop dope plantation, UPI reports.â¦
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Using elephant dung and skin samples, researchers said they were able to make a map of elephant DNA that could help track down ivory poachers.
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A farming co-op in the Netherlands has asked the ministry of agriculture to authorise the use of spicy tabasco sauce to protect their young crops from the insatiable appetites of hares, rabbits, crows and ...
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When elephants were removed from a research site in Kenya, a mysterious decline in the colonies of good ants and a growth in the colonies of bad ants emerged.
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An Aids-like virus has been found in African hunters who have eaten ape meat which is being sold illegally in the UK. A leading scientist has told the File On 4 programme that the virus was probably passed