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·21/3/2010 - SAS veterans join new war on poachers, Times (UK)

·21/3/2010 - African nations at loggerheads over auction of ivory stockpiles, Guardian

·12/3/2010 - Kenya strongly opposes resumption of ivory trade, Reuters

·12/3/2010 - List polar bear as endangered species, Guardian

·12/3/2010 - Eleven rare Siberian tigers die at struggling Chinese zoo, Associated Press

·12/2/2010 - A home from home: saving species from climate change, Guardian

·24/1/2010 - Zambia: Save the elephant: ivory trading is set to resume, Independent (UK)

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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 get a chilli reception           Rank: 76%

Alfonso Namilepe surveys his field. The sugar cane stalks are flattened and half-eaten crops lie all around. This was his only livelihood. In one night, it's all gone. "The armed conflict in Mozambique has finished, but now there's another war," he says, looking as devastated as his field. Over 1400km away in Kenya's Transmara district, farmers come down from a rickety tree-top watch tower. They...
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3. Elephants on Collision Course with People           Rank: 76%

South Africa for more than a century. But as elephant populations recover and grow, they are running out of room. There is nowhere else for them to go. "Population structures have been distorted in some areas to the extent that virtually every one of these elephant populations if protected, will increase exponentially," said Peter Goodman, Regional Ecologist in North Zululand for the Natal Parks...
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4. Animal behaviour: Rogue elephants           Rank: 76%

Bengal in the dead of night. It was a bad stretch of road, known to be frequented by bandits and separatist militants. We shouldn't have been out there so late at night, and we were going too fast in our hurry to get back to civilisation. Suddenly we noticed something blocking the road ahead. There was another car coming in the opposite direction, and all we could see was the silhouette picked out...
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5. Elephants and villagers battle in jungles of Bangladesh           Rank: 76%

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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6. Cameroon: Elephants Are Still Heavily Persecuted for Ivory Trade...           Rank: 76%

Elephants Are Still Heavily Persecuted for Ivory Trade - U.S. Veterinarian Dr. Michael Loomis, a Veterinarian working for the North Carolina Zoological Park, has been working with the World Wide Fund for Nature, WWF and Cameroon's Ministry of Environment, tagging elephants for nine years now. Loomis, 56, in this exclusive interview with The Post, explains what elephant tagging entails, its...
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7. Elephants killed near Indonesia's Tesso Nilo national park           Rank: 76%

National Park in Sumatra, according to Indonesian park officials. The elephants - mostly females cows, including one that was pregnant - were found on a community oil plam plantation within 300m of each other. "The cause of death is believed to be from poison," said Syamsidar Syamsidar, WWF-Indonesia's Tesso Nilo Communication Manager. Tesso Nilo is one of the last havens of Sumatran elephants and...
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