'Last chance' for elephant deal
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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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Yielding to pressure from animal-rights groups, the San Francisco Zoo is giving up its last elephant, marking the first time in the facility's 75-history that it will be without at least one pachyderm.
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The fate of some of the world's animals and plants may be decided at a conference on wildlife trade.
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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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EVERYONE'S favourite elephant is the star of the latest fabulous shows in out Ultimate Kids' DVD Collection.   Since we launched this great offer last Saturday, we've given away nine fun-filled DVDs and there are still five to come.
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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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EVERYONE'S favourite elephant is the star of the latest fabulous shows in out Ultimate Kids' DVD Collection.   Today's voucher is for two fantastic episodes featuring the adventures of Babar.
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Proposals to relax the bans on the trade in elephant ivory and hunting minke whales are being discussed at a convention in Bangkok. Send us your views.
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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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Robert Culp's lawsuit alleging that the Los Angeles Zoo mistreats elephants can go forward. Judge Reginald A. Dunn has rejected arguments by the city that the complaint filed by the 77-year-old actor and real estate agent Aaron Leider lacks a legal basis.
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The senior elephant keeper at Whipsnade Zoo describes the arrival of the latest addition to their herd of rare Asian elephants
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FORT WORTH, Texas - The tsunami victims in Asia will be getting some help from an elephant who was born in Thailand but now resides at the Fort Worth Zoo.  An original work of art by Rasha, a 7,000-pound elephant, will be auctioned off on e-Bay beginning at noon Wednesday.
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By ARTHUR MAX THE HAGUE, Netherlands - If you think the problem of endangered species is all about tigers, elephants and orangutans, ask a violinist where he gets his bow.
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African nations agreed Thursday to a massive ivory sell-off and a nine-year freeze on further sales, in a move conservationists hoped would mean a reprieve for elephant herds from poachers and smuggling syndicates.
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Government rejects petition to allow elephants to be kept as pets
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- Elephants emerged safer and tigers won a vote of support, but sharks and corals failed to win protection at a two-week wildlife trade conference that ended Friday.
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Offer made at talks aimed at resolving election crisis which so far has cost 1,000 lives