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India’s first elephant hospital has opened and people are rejoicing

sudshr47 November 24, 2018

This is One Good Thing, a weekly column where we tell you about one of the few nice things that happened this week.

The first hospital for elephants opened in the holy Hindu town of Mathura in India last week— and it’s kind of a big deal.

Designed for geriatric, sick, and injured elephants, the hospital — which spans over 12,000 square feet — is equipped with wireless digital X-Ray, thermal imaging, ultrasonography, tranquilization devices, and quarantine facilities, according to a Reuters report.

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An all-female armed unit is making sure poachers stay away from one of Africa’s largest elephant populations

sudshr47 May 17, 2018

In a local dialect, “Akashinga” means “The braves ones.” It’s also the name for the women’s anti-poaching unit in Zimbabwe. Founded by Damien Mander at the International Anti-Poaching Foundation, the armed group has already made 42 arrests leading to…

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This nomadic group of people once feared elephants. Now, they rescue them.

sudshr47 April 30, 2018

When elephants fall into deep holes, they often get trapped.

Unfortunately, in drought-ridden Kenya, nomadic ranchers frequently have to dig deep holes to find water for both themselves and their livestock. And at night, thirsty elephants seek out these wells. The adults, with great long trunks, have little problem reaching the water, but the junior, inexperienced elephants can tumble in. If the animals can’t be pulled out, the elephants are forced to abandon their young.

Over a dozen of these abandoned elephants now live at the Reteti Elephant Sanctuary, being taken on daily walks into the woods and fed milk with bottles. It’s a unique form of conservation, where the local Samburu people — a semi-nomadic pastoralist group — collectively owns, manages, and profits from tourists that visit the 3,400-acre property. Read more…

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Unusual smoke-breathing elephant baffles scientists

sudshr47 March 23, 2018

For scientists conducting long term research on tigers and their prey, catching an elephant smoking is a rather strange sight.
That’s what they discovered when they visited camera trap locations around India’s Nagarahole National Park.
“I believe…

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Trump administration nixes ban on hunted elephant tusks being carried into the U.S.

sudshr47 March 6, 2018

In November 2017, President Donald Trump called the hunting of elephants for their trophy tusks a “horror show.”

It appeared that Trump, who lacks stable policy positions on many issues, strongly opposed the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s (FWS) decision to allow African elephant trophies from Zimbabwe and Zambia to be imported into the U.S. Trump and Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke then decided to put the decision to allow trophy imports into the U.S. “on hold.”

Nearly four months later, that hold is coming off. The Trump administration will now consider letting hunting prizes from animals listed on the Endangered Species Act (such as lions and elephants) back into the U.S on a “case by case” basis, the FWS said. This may please Trump’s two oldest sons, who have vacationed in Africa where they shot large game animals — like elephants and leopards. Read more…

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Is anyone happy about Trump’s administration reversing the ban on elephant trophies?

sudshr47 November 17, 2017

The Trump administration’s ban reversal on elephant trophies has sparked outrage and disappointment across social media.
It being lifted will give hunters the right to bring trophies of elephants they killed in Zimbabwe and Zambia back to the U…

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Trump administration says hunters can bring African elephant trophies into the U.S.

sudshr47 November 16, 2017

Massive ivory tusks from legally hunted African elephants can once again be brought into the United States.
Although the Obama administration banned the importation of African elephant trophies in 2014, on Wednesday the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service…

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Three Connecticut elephants were just given lawyers, and the case sways on free will

sudshr47 November 14, 2017

A group of lawyers asked a Connecticut court on Monday to grant three traveling and working elephants “legal personhood,” a status that would set these intelligent creatures free.

The lawyers, of the Nonhuman Rights Project organization, previously attempted to get courts in New York to recognize chimpanzees as persons, but couldn’t sway the judges to accept that some intelligent animals should be given the same rights to free will as humans. Now, the Nonhuman Rights Project filed a petition of habeas corpus — a report of an unlawful imprisonment — for three elephants working at the traveling Commerford Zoo, based in Connecticut. Read more…

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