Elephant - Bagheera Elephants and Humans. Humans first tamed Asian elephants more than 4 000 years ago. In the past, humans used elephants in war. http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126
Endangered Elephants You are an investigative reporter, assigned to do a story about elephants and the imminent danger that faces them. http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126
African Savannah African Elephant 6. Zoobooks (Elephants), 1986. LB3/90, EC9/93;CL8/97 11/00, 3/02 www.oaklandzoo.org copyright 1997 2003 all rights reserved http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126
The Elephant Sanctuary, Hohenwald, Tennessee The Elephant Sanctuary of Hohenwald, Tennessee is a naturalhabitat refuge where sick, old and needy elephants can once again walk the Earth in http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126
Welcome To The TRAFFIC Network Ensure that trade in wild plants and animals is not a threat to the conservation of nature. http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126
Elephants Of Cameroon Field Trip Earth Home Elephants of Cameroon Introduction to Elephants of Cameroon African Elephants (Loxodonta africana) were added to the endangered species list http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126
Living With Elephants Foundation Living With Elephants is a federally registered nonprofit organization in Botswana which explores the relationship between the African Elephant and http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126
BBC NEWS Have Your Say Are Some Animals Given Too Much However, animal resources are renewable. Given time there will be sufficient elephants and whales to support limited trade. http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126
Elephants - Endangered Species - Teaching And Learning Strategy Students will learn interesting facts about elephants and test their knowledge of this endangered species. They will use a variety of resources http://tmsyn.wc.ask.com/r?t=an&s=hb&uid=24312681243126812&sid=343126
Global Species Programme Pollution. Our Solutions. WWF Classifications. threatened Species. Giant Pandas. elephants Global Species Programme Species endangered by extinction http://www.panda.org/about_wwf/what_we_do/species_wip/what_we_do/flagship_specie
Extractions: Navigation hidden Species Problems Habitat loss Human-Animal Conflict Unsustainable Trade Climate Change Bycatch Invasive Species Pollution Our Solutions WWF Classifications Threatened Species Giant Pandas Elephants Tigers Cetaceans Rhinoceros Great Apes Marine turtles Other Species: A-Z Species Index* Species by Country* Programmes African Elephants African Great Apes African Rhinos LAC Marine Turtles Tigers Policy Wildlife Trade CITES IWC What You Can Do News Successes Stories On The Ground Publications * WWF only provides detailed information on the 'priority' and 'flagship' species that it is focusing on. On beaches all around the world, it used to be common to see a marine turtle painstakingly heaving herself up the slope to dig a nest and lay her eggs. In doing so, she was taking part in a life cycle that's been ongoing for millenia. So what's changed?
Elephants - Endangered Status listed as a threatened species and the Asian elephant is listed as an endangered species. Re elephants endangered Status by Anonymous on May 04, http://greennature.com/article155.html
Extractions: Ivory Trade Under the Endangered Species Act, the African elephant is listed as a threatened species and the Asian elephant is listed as an endangered species. "Endangered" means a species is considered in danger of extinction throughout all or a significant portion of its range, and "threatened" means a species is considered in danger of becoming endangered. This protection prohibits elephant parts and products from being imported into the United States except under certain conditions. In addition, elephants are protected under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), an agreement among more than 120 nations to eliminate illegal trade in animals and plants, such as elephants, and their parts and associated products. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is the federal agency responsible for the U.S. government's compliance with the CITES treaty.
Are Elephants Endangered Species? Are elephants endangered species? from Frequently asked questions about Appendix I controls species whose existence is so threatened that trade is http://www.elephant.se/are_elephants_endangered_species.php?id=2
Animals Of The World In Danger: Endangered And Threatened Animals of the World in Danger endangered and threatened Animals and Species, whales, elephants, tigers, pandas, sharks, dolphins, otters. http://users.bigpond.net.au/gradley/animals/
Endangered Mammals--Science: Grades 3-5 Discuss the terminology endangered and threatened. Find some pictures of the different species of elephants to assist children as they summarize the http://www.teachercreated.com/lessons/010803is.shtml
Extractions: Product Spotlight TCR3139 Write Creatively In this section students will navigate their way around Web sites and find required information; compare different species of the same mammal; gather information about the characteristics, habits, diets, and behaviors of different mammals; and research the ways in which mammals adapt to their environments. Discuss the terminology endangered and threatened. Find some pictures of the different species of elephants to assist children as they summarize the differences and similarities. Have student visit the Web site listed below to complete the activity sheet. 40 minutes The Asian and African Elephants (Page 11) 1. Asian Elephant African Elephant Scientific name Elephas maximus Loxodonta weight length skin gray with coarse hair craggy ears small large feet thick padded soles thick padded soles trunk one "finger" two "fingers" toes 5 front 4 front, 3 hind
SchoolWorld Endangered Species Project: African Elephant endangered/threatened Species Report An elephant is round and plump, it s grey and some elephants are a brown colour. Their food are grass, shrubs, http://www.schoolworld.asn.au/species/elephant.html
Extractions: Photographer Unknown The size of the tallest male elephant is 12 feet and weigh 4 tons, the female elephant is 11 feet and a baby is 3 feet and weighs 200 kg. An elephant is round and plump, it's grey and some elephants are a brown colour. Their food are grass, shrubs, roots, fruit, leaves and bark. They drink their water out of streams and rivers. The family huddles together in any shady spot for shelter they roam around the African plains looking for food. An elephant's main features are their tusks, big ears, a large trunk, they are very big and they have a little tail. An elephant can camouflage in with trees and the dry lands and they enjoy rolling in the mud. The elephant lives mainly in the west of Africa around the Sahara, Namby and Botouwa areas. An elephants main natural predator is the lion. Man kills them and they suffer a loss of habitat from man building cities.
SchoolWorld Endangered Species Project: Elephant endangered/threatened Species Report The elephant used it s trunk to drink with. Young elephants don t know how to use their trunk so it drinks from http://www.schoolworld.asn.au/species/elphant1.html
Extractions: Photographer Unknown A grown-up Ceylon elephant is three metres tall. The Ceylon elephants have small round ears and tusks that are hollow at the base. An elephant's trunk can pick up small things and they wrap their trunk around larger things. It has legs that are long but well built. The Ceylon elephant is an Asian elephant. It lives on the island of Sir Lanka. The island used to be called Ceylon. The Ceylon elephants live in thick forests. They love to wallow in mud holes and bath in streams. The older male Ceylon elephants normally live by themselves. The females stay in herds and live with their young ones, sometimes, a few young males are in the group. The oldest female elephant in the group is normally the leader. The herds normally have ten to twenty in them. The Ceylon elephant spends eighteen hours eating a day. Elephants are vegetarians and they eat mostly grasses, small branches and twigs, foliage, vines, leaves, fruit and the tender shoots of plants. It curls it's trunk around the food and the it tucks it's trunk under and putts it into it's mouth. An elephant has four teeth, that are replaced six times. Once the last tooth has worn down the elephant can no longer eat so it dies of starvation usually between the ages of 50 and 60 years. Elephants eat a lot of food because their body is so large. An elephant is made up of about 70per cent of water.
Animal Fact Sheets African elephants once ranged from south of the Sahara Desert to northern part of its range) on the federal list of endangered and threatened Species, http://www.zoo.org/educate/fact_sheets/elephants/africel.htm
Extractions: The African elephant, the largest living land mammal, belongs to the family Elephantidae, which includes only one other smaller relative, the Asian (or Indian) elephant. African elephants once ranged from south of the Sahara Desert to northern South Africa. Today, African elephants are now mostly confined to parks and reserves. Habitat
Animal Fact Sheets Asian elephants are found throughout India, Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon), Nepal, of its range) on the federal list of endangered and threatened Species, http://www.zoo.org/educate/fact_sheets/elephants/asianel.htm
Extractions: The Asian, or Indian, elephant belongs to the family Elephantidae, which also includes its larger relative, the African elephant. Asian elephants are found throughout India, Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon), Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar (formerly Burma), China, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Malaysia and Indonesia. Habitat
New Page 1 being added to the endangered and threatened wildlife list every year, It is thought that around 100000 Asian elephants may have existed at the http://www.indyzoo.com/pdf/PrizeConservationFacts.htm
Extractions: Director of Communications General Public Information: www.indianapoliszoo.com Backgrounder Wildlife Conservation Fact Sheet Statistics show that with more animals being added to the endangered and threatened wildlife list every year, there is a dire need for conservation now: I t has been estimated that the current species extinction rate is 1,000 to 10,000 times higher than it would naturally be. (Source: The World Conservation Union - IUCN)
