Rampaging Elephants a Headache in S.Africa
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KRUGER NATIONAL PARK, South Africa  - There are no  easy answers when it comes to keeping the world's largest land  mammal in check.
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Elephants and eels may find life  slightly easier after trade curbs imposed by U.N. talks ending  on Friday that are a pinprick to slow what may be the worst  wave of extinctions since the dinosaurs.
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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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South Africa needs to consider  restarting elephant culls because growing numbers of the mammal  now threaten local habitats, the WWF conservation group has  said.
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BANGKOK, Thailand - If a toothache is bad, just imagine what a tusk ache must feel like.    So pity the poor three-ton bull elephant Kamsaen, whose four months of agony finally came to an end when veterinarians extracted a partially cut tusk which had become infected...
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ULUSABA, South Africa  - Wealthy tourists jetting into South Africa to stay at luxury safari lodges pay top dollar for the illusion of danger, epitomized by a trumpeting elephant or a lion moving in for a kill.
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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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ROCKTAIL BAY, South Africa  - The signs of the  scuffle were fresh but it is a struggle that has gone on for  tens of millions of years.
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GABORONE, Botswana  - When Uttum Corea arrived in  Africa from Sri Lanka he was puzzled by the widely held notion  that African elephants could not be tamed.
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HWANGE NATIONAL PARK, Zimbabwe -- Wildlife guide Mike Scott followed footprints of one large animal after another -- elephant, buffalo, kudu, leopard, lion -- and then stopped suddenly, sniffing the air. ``Shall we follow our noses?" he said, heading toward a powerful stench that grew more noxious by the step.
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Botswana, which has the largest elephant population in Africa, will donate 500 animals to Mozambique, conservationists and Mozambican officials said Friday.
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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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The African elephant got a new line of defense against poachers Monday after a global wildlife conference approved measures aimed at wiping out the continent&#39;s illegal ivory trade.
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The threat to orangutans from illegal logging may be greater than has previously been predicted.
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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 practice banned since 1994 as unnecessarily cruel to the beloved but destructive animals.
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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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Scientists struggle to contain an anthrax epidemic which has killed nearly 200 hippos in a Ugandan national park.