41. WWF - Elephants
confrontations between elephants and people, often leading to deaths on both sides.
More on human-elephant conflict
More on threats to African elephants
More on threats to Asian elephants
More on wildlife
http://wwf.panda.org/about_our_earth/species/profiles/mammals/elephants/ - 52.8kb
42. WWF - WWF-Canon Photogallery
The African Elephant
The African Elephant is the world's largest land mammal, with males weighing up to 7,500 kg. There are two subspecies - the savanna Elephant (Loxodonta africana africana) inhabits grasslands and
http://wwf.panda.org/wwf_news/multimedia/photogallery/gallery.cfm?uGalleryID=500 - 40.8kb
43. WWF - Tiger Tales: Maran the mahout
some days, Maran takes the elephant for another dip in the river in the afternoon.
Maran learned the art of riding elephants from his father who was also a mahout. He was with his father on an elephant when he saw his first tiger. “I was
http://wwf.panda.org/who_we_are/wwf_offices/india/?200546/Tiger-Tales-Maran-the-mahout - 44.6kb
44. WWF - Seized ivory burned in Kenya
some populations of elephants in southern and eastern Africa are stable or recovering, forest elephants in Central Africa are in grave danger from poaching, fuelled by demand for illegal ivory. According to a recent report on trade in
http://wwf.panda.org/wwf_news/?201075/Seized-ivory-burned-in-Kenya - 51.8kb
45. WWF - Objectives of the AREAS Programme
for Asian elephants and rhinos
Asian elephants
The long-term goals (10-20 years) for the Asian elephant under WWF’s Asian Rhino and elephant Action Strategy (AREAS) is for:
http://wwf.panda.org/what_we_do/endangered_species/elephants/asian_elephants/areas/objectives/ - 45.4kb
46. WWF - Tiger Tales: Maran the mahout
some days, Maran takes the elephant for another dip in the river in the afternoon.
Maran learned the art of riding elephants from his father who was also a mahout. He was with his father on an elephant when he saw his first tiger. “I was
http://wwf.panda.org/what_we_do/endangered_species/tigers/news_pubs/?200546/Tiger-Tales-Maran-the-mahout - 45.6kb
47. WWF - Ivory and rhino horn seized at Bangkok airport
stopped a shipment of 16 elephant tusks and two Black Rhino horns which were scheduled to transit in Thailand before being flown to a destination in Lao PDR.
Last August, five rhino horns and two tonnes of elephant ivory bound for
http://wwf.panda.org/who_we_are/wwf_offices/thailand/?199447/Ivory-and-rhino-horn-seized-at-Bangkok-airport - 64.6kb
48. WWF - Seized ivory burned in Kenya
some populations of elephants in southern and eastern Africa are stable or recovering, forest elephants in Central Africa are in grave danger from poaching, fuelled by demand for illegal ivory. According to a recent report on trade in
http://wwf.panda.org/about_our_earth/search_wwf_news/?201075/Seized-ivory-burned-in-Kenya - 52.0kb
49. WWF - WWF welcomes Central African clampdown on smugglers
dollar for rhino horn and elephant tusks, whilst their respective governments do nothing to effectively control these imports. One would think for a start that the well-educated sophisticated Japanese could move away from “Sympathetic
http://wwf.panda.org/wwf_news/?197635/WWF-welcomes-Central-African-clampdown-on-smugglers - 52.6kb
50. WWF - WWF projects in the Green Heart of Africa
Elephant conservation in Africa
African Elephants are the world’s largest terrestrial mammals. Although Elephant numbers have recovered from record lows in the 1980s – today there ar...
http://wwf.panda.org/what_we_do/where_we_work/congo_basin_forests/wwf_solutions/wwf_projects_congo_basin_forests/ - 54.2kb
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