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·13/5/2010 - Conservationists protest as Robert Mugabe sends 'ark' of animals to North Korea, Guardian

·16/4/2010 - India: Balancing Biodiversity and Livelihood A Juggling Act, Inter Press Service

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

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

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

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

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

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·Wildlife Protection Society of India

·Endangered Species

·Films4Conservation

·Gorilla Organization, The

·Primate Specialist Group

·Bush Warriors: Stop Poaching and Bushmeat

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1. Elephants Poaching News, Links and Information from Forests.Org           Rank: 75%

Elephants Poaching News Results ·13/5/2010 - Conservationists protest as Robert Mugabe sends 'ark' of animals to North Korea, Guardian ·16/4/2010 - India: Balancing Biodiversity and Livelihood A Juggling Act, Inter Press Service ·21/3/2010 - African nations at loggerheads over auction of ivory stockpiles, Guardian ·21/3/2010 - SAS veterans join new war on poachers, Times (UK) ·12/3/2010 -...
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2. Poaching Making Chinese Elephants Evolve Tuskless           Rank: 74%

China Daily said, quoting research from Beijing Normal University. "The larger tusks the male elephant has, the more likely it will be shot by poachers," said researcher Zhang Li, an associate professor of zoology. "Therefore, the ones without tusks survive, preserving the tuskless gene in the species." Since only male elephants have tusks, there were now four female elephants for each male in...
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3. AFRICA: Poaching threatens elephants in DRC           Rank: 74%

Central African Republic, a conservationist says. In the CAR, poachers have wiped out virtually all wild game, prompting an increase in the slaughter of elephants in the unique habitat on the edge of the Congo basin where rainforest blends into open savannah. It is a home for a combination of forest and savannah wildlife, possibly including a type of large chimpanzee still unknown to science. If...
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4. Indian wildlife officials concerned as poaching of male elephants...           Rank: 73%

The numbers are down and, he fears, may one day be out. "It is alarming," says Harsha, who says poachers who continue to kill elephants for their ivory tusks may have decimated the population, something which will be determined by the largest ever census of India's Asian elephant population which began recently. Harsha, one of hundreds of census volunteers, found that of the 42 elephants he...
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5. Space for Elephants | News: Current Elephant Poaching           Rank: 73%

Iain Douglas-Hamilton, Pachyderm No. 45 July 2008-June 2009 African and Asian elephants are in for tough times ahead. Their problems are complex. In southern Af-rica worries are still expressed about 'too many el-ephants' destroying woody vegetation in protected areas. In most of their range, crop raiding and con-flict with human beings is reported every week. Cur-rently, there are at least two...
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6. Poaching May Erase Elephants From Chad Wildlife Park           Rank: 73%

Fay helped conduct the 2006 census with partial funding from the National Geographic Society's Expeditions Council. (The National Geographic Society owns National Geographic News.) "Even if you are looking at the most optimistic estimates [closer to 2,000 left], that means your elephants will last three years [if poaching continues at current rates], which is catastrophic," Fay added. PHOTO:...
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7. Poaching May Erase Elephants From Chad Wildlife Park           Rank: 72%

The elephant population in one of central Africa's remaining wildlife strongholds may vanish within the next two to three years if poaching continues at recent levels, according to conservationists who recently surveyed the park. Researchers conducted two sample surveys this year of African elephant populations in Chad's Zakouma National Park. Both counts indicate that there may be just a thousand...
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