Endangerment & Conservation : The Big Picture
“Captivity is a terrible existence for any intelligent, self-aware species. To believe otherwise, as some high-ranking zoo employees appear to believe, is delusional. And the quality of life that Billy, Tina, and Jewel endure in their captivity is particularly poor.”
read more"...it is estimated that for every calf smuggled across the country’s 1,200-mile border with Thailand, up to five adult female and adolescent elephants from the calf’s immediate family group are gunned down in cold blood."
read more"Seizures of contraband ivory in Africa and China have soared in recent years as syndicates with deep roots in the billion-dollar wildlife-smuggling trade seek to feed the spike in demand among increasingly wealthy Chinese."
read morePeople for the Ethical Treatment of Animals claims in court that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service should not have granted permits to export endangered elephants and tigers for circuses.
read moreZoocheck has thrown its support behind proposed provincial legislation that would ban the use of bullhooks and other “weapons” on elephants in Ontario.
read moreThe zoo announced this week plans to shut down the popular Elephant Crossing exhibit, saying it’s in the animals’ best interest to find them a new home with more space and a larger herd.
read moreThe Toronto Zoo’s departing elephants have squashed its accreditation. Thanks, Bob Barker. Toronto City Council made an...
read moreFree "canteens" have been set up for wild elephants to reduce the friction with villagers caused by their return to the improved environment of Pu'er in Southwest China's Yunnan province, said Shen Peiping, Party chief of Pu'er.
read more"...baby elephants were snatched from their mothers – who were likely killed in the process – to be sold into a ring whose business is to train, sell and distribute wild-caught baby elephants into the tourist trade, a very lucrative business that has been going on in Thailand for years, which many people have known but few have done anything about."
read more"When I started the Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee, I didn’t have to consider much beyond elephant welfare," Buckley says. "But in India, I also need to address human welfare. ..."
read moreThe elephant escaped from the Courtney Brothers circus at the Sunbeam site in Blackpool yesterday.
read moreThe local humane society won’t enforce the laws that are supposed to protect Lucy. Yet, as the law stands, nobody else is allowed to speak for her or to assert her interests in any formal way.
read more“This is the problem with those who they think they can come to manipulate and control people, destroy natural resources and say ‘we came to help.’ We don’t want them here,” he said.
read moreThe elephant may have been worked to death by its owner and mahout, who then decided to remove a tusk to sell on the black market, he said.
read moreIvory is not the only objective. He also quoted the report as saying baby elephants, valued at 200,000 baht each, are kidnapped and sent to elephant camps nationwide to be trained and reared for elephant shows.
read moreBy 8:15 p.m., hundreds had gathered along Sixth Avenue NW. For her fascination, Shannon Abbott felt a little guilty. She’s a 25-year-old legislative analyst, visiting her sister. She has heard allegations of bad treatment of circus elephants, which led to an animal-cruelty lawsuit that was recently settled for $270,000.
read moreAn eight year old elephant at the Pinnewala Elephant ‘Orphanage’ in Sri Lanka has recently been seen with multiple wounds to her legs and head, believed to be caused by a brutal training regime.
read moreThe demands put forth by the farmers included issue of gun license to them, no cases to be filed against the farmers and others. They challenged the officials that they know how to drive the elephants straying into their villages even in their absence.
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