101. PETA :: Action Alerts: Thank Chehaw Wild Animal Park For Retiring Its Elephants Thank Chehaw wild Animal Park for Retiring Its elephants. In March 2004, Georgia’s Chehaw wild Animal Park permanently closed its elephant exhibit and http://www.peta.org/alert/automation/AlertItem.asp?id=977

102. Wildlife Adventure Travel India - Birding, Tiger Safaris, Angling Tours In India India s wildlife is amazing for its beauty and diversity elephants, monkeys, the foothills of the Himalaya host herds of wild elephants, Indian rhinos, http://www.wildworldindia.com/

India Wildlife Tours Adventure Tours - India Wildlife Travel Packages At The Kanha Tiger Reserve National Parks and Sanctuaries India Corbett National Park Founded in 1935 by the British, Corbett National Park is the oldest national park in India. One of two tiger reserves in Uttar Pradesh, this breathtaking park rests along the Ramganga river and clutches the Himalayan foothills. Though it is most famous for the tigers it harbors, it is also an excellent place to see elephant and is home to an enormous variety of bird species. Ranthambhore National Park If you've had no luck with tigers in India, chances are, you never went to Ranthambhore. Not only is tiger activity in the park quite high, their intrepid nature (true to their Rajput environment) has made Ranthambhore the best park in which to photograph them. Bandhavgarh National Park One of the India's best parks, Bandhavgarh is located in Madhya Pradesh in an area which once inspired the setting for Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book. Bandhavgarh is one of the best places to see tigerat one time, before the park was enlarged, it had the highest density of tigers anywhere. The park also holds panthers, and an abundance of bird species flit through the rainforest. Kaziranga Wildlife Sanctuary The Kaziranga first came into being in 1908, when the local one-horned rhinoceros was so depleted by big game hunters that the animals were thought to be near extinction. Depradation is still a threat, as the rhinos are still poached for their much fetishized horns. Thanks to preservation efforts, there are now almost 900 rhino roaming the park, which rests on the banks of the Brahmaputra river in the eastern triangle state of Assam.

103. Elephant - Bagheera Explains why the African elephant population is in danger and tells what people are doing to help. http://www.bagheera.com/inthewild/van_anim_elephant.htm

Return to Vanishing ELEPHANT Remaining Population: Unknown Range: Africa 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 for some. Elephants have entertained us in circuses and festivals around the world. For centuries, the elephant's massive tusks have been prized for their ivory. The African elephant once roamed the entire continent of Africa, and the Asian elephant ranged from Syria to northern China and the islands of Indonesia. These abundant populations have been reduced to groups in scattered areas south of the Sahara and in isolated patches in India, Sri Lanka, and Southeast Asia. Demand for ivory, combined with habitat loss from human settlement, has led to a dramatic decline in elephant populations in the last few decades. In 1930, there were between 5 and 10 million African elephants. By 1979, there were 1.3 million. In 1989, when they were added to the international list of the most endangered species, there were about 600,000 remaining, less than one percent of their original number.

104. Conservation GIS: Asian Elephant Conservation - National Zoo| FONZ wild elephant calf at Khao Yai National Park, Thailand Recent estimates place wild elephant population to be between 30000 and 40000. http://nationalzoo.si.edu/ConservationAndScience/ConservationGIS/projects/asian_

Home Conservation GIS Projects Asian Elephants ... What Is GIS? Related Resources Asian Elephants Scientific Publications Asian Elephant Conservation Wild elephant calf at Khao Yai National Park, Thailand (Source: Peter Leimgruber) Recent estimates place wild elephant population to be between 30,000 and 40,000. Once abundant throughout all of Southeast Asia, these elephants are now found only in small pockets of remaining wild habitat widely dispersed across 13 countries. Ivory poaching is a grave problem for elephant conservation, but the most serious threat to the remaining wild populations comes from continued habitat loss due to increasing population pressures, agricultural land conversion, replacement of forests by palm oil plantation, and large-scale commercial logging and deforestation. Despite the continued decline and increasing threats to the remaining wild populations, little information is available on the true number of elephants in the wild, the extent of suitable wildlands for the conservation of these endangered populations, and which areas have the best potential for long-term conservation of Asian elephants. Zoo researchers at the Conservation GIS Lab are addressing many of these questions through high-tech mapping using satellite imagery, Global Positioning Systems (GPS), Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and even real-time tracking of wild elephant herds by using satellite radio collars.

105. BBC - Science & Nature - Animals - Children's Zone - Really Wild File - Asian El Really wild File. Asian elephant. Select a Creature closeup, , Asian elephant, Bald eagle, Chimpanzee, Dolphin, Great white shark http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/reallywild/wildfile/wildfile_asian_elephant.shtml

@import url('/includes/tbenh.css') ; Home TV Radio Talk ... A-Z Index WEDNESDAY 21st September 2005 Text only Animals Prehistoric Life Space ... BBC Homepage In Animals Birds Mammals UK wildlife ... Help Like this page? Send it to a friend! You are here: BBC Animals Children's Zone Asian elephant Select a Creature close-up Asian elephant Bald eagle Chimpanzee Dolphin Great white shark Leopard Macaw Nile crocodile Polar bear Red fox Southern elephant seal Tiger Asian elephant growling Asian elephant trumpeting You can download Realplayer for free here follow the links for the basic Realplayer 8. Common name: Asian elephant Latin name: Elephas maximus Distribution: Asian elephants have a wide range. You can find them in India (which is why they used to be called Indian elephants), Sri Lanka and further south and east as far as Sumatra. Habitat: They’re well suited to monsoon territory. They like living on the edge of forests but can cope with most habitats, as long as they can find enough to eat and drink. Appearance: Asian elephants aren’t quite as big as African elephants but they’re still huge and can weigh as much as five cars. They have thick, dry skin that varies in colour from brown to grey. They flap their ears in the breeze to keep cool. Food: Elephants are vegetarians. They prefer grasses, but can also eat bark, roots, leaves

106. Asian Elephant Biligiri was an adolescent wild male Asian elephant. He was at Kyatedevaragudi in the Biligirirangan hills of southern India. The date was 19 January 1983. http://www.thewildones.org/Animals/elephant.html

ASIAN ELEPHANTS Elephas maximus Subspecies: indicus, maximus, sumatranus "Asian Cow and Calf" Photo by Doug Pernikoff Vocabulary: depigmentation poaching musth matriarchal ... infrasonic "Biligiri seemed unsure of what to do with himself. The entire afternoon he had been hesitant, shuffling up and down the welltrodden path that ran through the jungle to the pond. He listened to sounds of music and laughter, of a child wailing, the squeak of a wheel cranking up a bucket of water from a well, of wet clothes being beaten against a stone, but he did not really take them in. Not today. They seemed rather jumbled. He was undergoing a strange transformation, a transformation which was perfectly normal for his age, though he did not know it. His entire body was alight, there was a dull ache in his temples, his blood seemed to rush with a new urgency. For the first time he was in musth. And he was confused, like other sixteen year olds. Biligiri was an adolescent wild male Asian elephant. He was at Kyatedevaragudi in the Biligirirangan hills of southern India. The date was 19 January 1983." (Excerpted from "Elephant Crossing Sign from Indonesia"

107. Elephants Break Out Of Zoo, Stop At Restaurant - Peculiar Postings - MSNBC.com Six elephants escaped from a zoo parade and roamed around the South Korean capital Seoul on Wednesday before being herded back to their enclosure. http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7571145/

Skip navigation U.S. News Hurricane Katrina The Changing Court ... Most Popular NBC NEWS MSNBC TV Today Show Nightly News Meet the Press ... Peculiar Postings Elephants break out of zoo, stop at restaurant The six were eventually caught; one spent time at Seoul police station FREE VIDEO Elephant escapade April 20: Six elephants escaped from a zoo in Seoul, South Korea, running around town and even checking out a restaurant. The "Today" show's Natalie Morales describes the brief escape. Today show Today show MSNBC News Services SEOUL, South Korea - Six elephants escaped from a zoo parade and roamed around the South Korean capital Seoul on Wednesday before being herded back to their enclosure. The elephants were on a daily parade outside their enclosure at Seoul Children's Grand Park when one was apparently startled and bolted, a zoo official said by telephone. The five others followed "because they have the tendency to do that," the official said. The elephants stampeded into the garden of a private home and, while being corralled, three suddenly changed direction and went into a nearby restaurant. One elephant charged into an alley near an elementary school and hit a woman with its trunk, Yonhap news agency said. She was being treated at a hospital.

108. DARPA's Wild Kingdom If you have a wild idea, DARPA s the place to try it out. As evidenced by their Vietnamera mechanical elephant project and a recent grant to http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/columns/2004/03/03_201.html

Advertisement Advertisement HOME NEWS COMMENTARY ARTS ... SUBSCRIBE NOW CRAZY PRICE! 1 year just $10 Click Here Sundays on Air America Radio THIS WEEK "First lady of the press" Helen Thomas, plus our annual roundup of the nation's top student activists Learn More... Learn about subscriber content DARPA's Wild Kingdom Commentary: Weaponized bees, robotic rats, sleepless soldiers; does Mother Nature stand a chance in the face of the Pentagon's new science? By Nick Turse March 8, 2004 Conflict Studies From filibustering Frist to taking a stand on Darfur: Our annual roundup of college campus activism. Advertisements Your Ad Here Your Ad Here Your Ad Here Your Ad Here Advertisements When, in October 1957, the USSR launched the first man-made earth satellite, the basketball-sized Sputnik, it caught the United States off guard and sent the government into fits. Not only had the Soviets exploded an atomic bomb years before the Americans predicted they would, but now they were leading the "space race." In response, the Defense Department approved funding for a new U.S. satellite project, headed by former Nazi SS officer Wernher von Braun, and created, in 1958, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to make certain that the United States forever after maintained "a lead in applying state-of-the-art technology for military capabilities and to prevent technological surprise from her adversaries." Almost half a century later, what's left of the USSR is a collapsed group of half-failed states, while the U.S. stands alone as the globe's sole hyperpower. Yet DARPA, the agency for an arms-race world, seems only to be warming up to the chase. There may be no country left to take the lead from us, the nearest military competitor being China which reportedly had $65 billion in military expenditures in 2002 (compared to our $466 billion according to GlobalSecurity.org) and which, only in 2003, put its first "Taikonaut" into outer space. Undaunted, DARPA continues to develop high-tech weapons systems for 2025-2050 and beyond – some of them standard fare like your run-of-the-mill. hypersonic bombers, others more exotic.

109. Apologies: We Can't Find The Page You're Looking For... Endangered species Asian elephants IntroductionWild elephant populations are mostly small, isolated, and unable to join as ancient migratory routes are cut off by human settlements. http://www.panda.org/resources/publications/species/w-elephants/page1.htm

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110. Wild Animal Park Exhibit: African Elephant The wild Animal Park is an 1800acre wildlife preserve that allows visitors to view herds of exotic animals as they might be seen in their native lands. http://dev.sandiegozoo.com/wap/ex_elephants.html

park home directions guest services activities ... interactive map Quick Facts Location (indicated in orange on the map): Wild Animal Park , east of Nairobi Village Size: African elephant exhibit is 3 acres (1.2 hectares); Asian elephant exhibit is 2.5 acres (1 hectare) Opening date: May 10, 1972 Nearest food stand: Elephant Cart African elephants Asian elephants More Elephant Show Royal Treatment Tour for Members Special/VIP Tours Wgasa Bush Line Railway Other Animal Cams Panda Cam Ape Cam Polar Cam Help us help wildlife. Adopt-An-Animal is a unique way to give a gift. Your generous donation helps animals at the San Diego Zoo and in their wild homes. Please consider joining our conservation team today! For more on the San Diego Zoo's conservation efforts, see the site of CRES , the San Diego Zoo's department of Conservation and Research for Endangered Species Elephant Overlook Meet the Park's African Elephants Mabu Swazi Moya Samba ... Moose Error! Browser has JavaScript disabled. Please enable JavaScript in your browser in order to view this live feed.

111. San Diego Zoo.org The wild Animal Park is unlike traditional zoos, with giraffes, rhinos, The Elephant Cam page has moved.You will be redirected to the new page in 5 http://www.sandiegozoo.org/wap/elephant_cam.html

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112. Animal Protection Institute - News Release: "Repackaged" Wild African Elephant I Repackaged wild African Elephant Import to US Zoos Challenged in Federal Court. US FWS Set to Issue Illegal Import Permits over Objections of Leading http://www.api4animals.org/1556.htm

For Immediate Release: July 10, 2003 Contact: Nicole Paquette, 916-812-7634 Suzanne Roy, 415-898-2720 Will Travers, 011 44 1 403 327833 "Repackaged" Wild African Elephant Import to U.S. Zoos Challenged in Federal Court U.S. FWS Set to Issue Illegal Import Permits over Objections of Leading African Elephant Researchers and Conservationists Washington, DC A coalition of conservation and animal advocacy groups will file suit today in U.S. District Court to invalidate U.S. Fish and Wildlife (FWS) permits authorizing the illegal import of 11 juvenile African elephants taken from the wild in Swaziland to be put on display at the San Diego Zoo and the Lowry Park Zoo of Tampa. On July 9, the FWS issued a "record of decision" indicating it will issue the permits on Friday, July 11. The conservation coalition which includes the Born Free Foundation, Born Free USA, The Elephant Alliance, the Elephant Sanctuary, In Defense of Animals, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Animal Protection Institute, Animal Welfare Institute, Animal Legal Defense Fund and San Diego Animal Advocates maintains that the permits violate the U.S. Endangered Species Act, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna (CITES), and the National Environmental Policy Act.

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