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·30/8/2010 - Treasure hunt in the Kendujhar forests, InfoChange India News
·15/7/2010 - Woolly mammoth hunters helped change climate, Reuters
·13/7/2010 - Africa's game parks rapidly losing animals, study finds, Reuters
·13/7/2010 - Customs seize thousands of dead pangolins, Guardian
·7/7/2010 - Donated Cambodian elephants to be flown to S.Korea, Agence France Presse
·13/5/2010 - Conservationists protest as Robert Mugabe sends 'ark' of animals to North Korea, Guardian
·10/5/2010 - BP Considers Options As Oil Keeps Pouring Into Gulf, National Public Radio
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- 1. Elephants An Endangered Species At Bagheera Rank: 77%
- Throughout history, the elephant has played an important role in human economies, religion, and culture. The immense size, strength, and stature of this largest living land animal has intrigued people of many cultures for hundreds of years. In Asia, elephants have served as beasts of burden in war and peace. Some civilizations have regarded elephants as gods, and they have been symbols of royalty...
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- 2. Elephants and villagers battle in jungles of Bangladesh Rank: 77%
- Sometimes the elephants win. This is an ongoing battle," said Abdus Shukur, a 45-year-old father of three. The migration of humans displaced by natural disasters has added to the damaging pace of deforestation in southeastern Bangladesh, near the border with India and Myanmar. Elephants are being squeezed into an increasingly small part of the forest, greatly raising the risk of confrontation. The...
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- 3. Elephants Rampage Through India Villages Rank: 76%
- Asiatic elephants in India, said M.C. Malakar, Assam's Chief Wildlife Warden. The big herds, faced with shrinking forest cover and human encroachment of their corridors, venture into human settlements looking for food and attack those who try to stop them. The wild elephants have stampeded across the region, stomping down houses and feasting on standing crops, Pradyut Bordoloi, Assam state's...
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- 4. Elephants Run Amok in Bangladesh as Humans Invade Turf Rank: 76%
- Twelve people died in the last eight months of this year. Most of the clashes took place in the southeastern hilly region of Chittagong where small pockets of human settlements are growing every year, invading the country's last permanent home of the Asian elephant. Considering the small number of elephants in the country, wildlife experts are urging the government to take steps to avert the...
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- 5. INDONESIA: Elephants patrol Leuser conservation area Rank: 76%
- Leuser conservation area in Aras Napal, Besitang, North Sumatra. Christine, the product of a tame elephant and a wild one, was born five months ago at the Elephant Patrol Unit (UPG) station. Her presence at the UPG increased the number of tame elephants to five. In spite of her tender age, the calf has at times followed her mother Tantri around the forest around Mount Leuser National Park (TNGL)...
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- 6. Elephants carry hopes of Lao eco-tourism Rank: 76%
- Lao elephant conservation for seven years. "In the past, elephants were employed two or three hours a day to bring in the rice from the harvest, to carry firewood, to help build the houses. "Now they are employed in logging camps for three, four months, and during that time they work eight hours a day. They are exhausted and don't reproduce well, and the birth rates are plummeting. "The population...
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- 7. Asia's Elephants Losing the Battle for Living Space Rank: 76%
- Save the Elephants group. Elephants are reduced to scavenging for food in such places as a stinking garbage dump in Mannampitiya in Sri Lanka, an island that is home to about 3,000 elephants. The dump is now an infamous elephant-watching spot. Four people were killed in September in Bangladesh after a herd of 10 elephants descended from a forest southeast of Dhaka and stomped through villages,...
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