Ruling reluctantly Wednesday against activists fighting to free an elephant held in solitary captivity at the Bronx Zoo, a New York judge said her hands are tied by her inability to recognize Happy the elephant’s rights to personhood.
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One month after escaping a poacher’s trap in South Africa’s Kruger National Park, Khanysia the albino elephant weighs a healthy 330 pounds, adding 1 pound every day she spends her time playing with caretakers.
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Botswana, home to the world’s largest elephant population, on Friday was set to hold its first major auction for trophy elephant hunting quotas since scrapping a hunting ban last year.
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Russia is said to be the place where bears roam the streets — but for a short while it was a free-for-all for elephants.
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Separated from their mothers, jabbed with metal hooks, and sometimes deprived of food — many Thai elephants are tamed by force before being sold to lucrative tourism sites increasingly advertised as ‘sanctuaries’ to cruelty-conscious travelers.
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An international team of researchers has developed a new online tool to help law enforcement officials track down the original locations of poached elephant tusks, which they unveiled in a study published Friday in Journal of Heredity.
Read moreHappy the elephant, whether she’s actually happy or not, will remain in the Bronx Zoo at least for the next few months.
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At least 55 elephants have died in a month in Zimbabwe due to a lack of food and water, its wildlife agency said Monday, as the country faces one of the worst droughts in its history.
Read moreA pygmy elephant has been found dead in a river on the Malaysian part of Borneo island, an official said Friday, the latest of the endangered creatures to perish.
Read moreAmerica’s oldest zoo-kept elephants can stay right where they are in Massachusetts, a federal judge ruled, rejecting a push to have the prodigious pachyderms moved to a roaming Tennessee sanctuary.
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An elephant at the center of a legal battle has died. The Eastern States Exposition on Wednesday confirmed that Beulah, one of three elephants an animal rights group was seeking to free, has died at 54.
Read moreThe regulator of global wildlife trade will impose a near-total ban on sending African elephants captured from the wild to zoos after a final vote on the issue on Tuesday.
Read moreA Connecticut appeals court affirmed dismissal of a habeas petition from the Nonhuman Rights Project on behalf of three elephants confined in a zoo, as “the court reasonably found that elephants are not persons and lack standing to file a habeas petition.”
Read moreBotswana has lifted its ban on elephant hunting in a country with the world’s highest number of the animals, a decision that has brought anger from some wildlife protection groups.
Read moreConservation efforts narrowly focused on species risk of extinction are likely to miss other important road signs along the way. This is especially true of large animals, which reproduce and rebound slowly, argues a study focused on Asian elephants published Friday.
Read moreAn activist group fighting to free three elephants from a Connecticut petting zoo urged an appeals court Monday to revive their case.
Read moreRangers at a national park in northeastern Thailand have rescued six baby elephants that were trapped in a mud pit.
Read moreSeveral African countries with some of the world’s largest elephant populations will push this year for looser controls on legal ivory trade, while another group of countries on the continent says more restrictions are the best way to curb the illegal killing of elephants for their tusks.
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