and the General Administration of Customs for destroying confiscated ivory--a major development in the effort to protect elephants from the ravages of ivory poaching.
and lead the world by committing not to buying ivory in the future it would have a transformative positive impact on the survival of African elephants We congratulate China's government for showing the world that elephant poaching
and that elephants will once again flourish. On November 14 the U s. destroyed six tons of illegal ivory to raise awareness about the plight of elephants.
In almost all parts of Africa elephant numbers have plummeted due largely to the demand for ivory with an estimated 96 elephants poached each day in 2012.
The ivory burning event comes in the wake of a front-page story in the influential Chinese newspaper Southern Weekly last November about the ivory trade.
and consumption as the main driver of the elephant poaching crisis. In addition the story highlighted the links between'blood ivory'as a source of funds for terrorist organizations and rebel groups in Africa.
WCS is leading global efforts to save Africa's elephants and end the current poaching and ivory trafficking crisis by working in 11 African nations
In September WCS launched its 96 Elephants campaign to amplify and support the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) commitment to save Africa's elephants by stopping the killing stopping the trafficking
and stopping the demand. The WCS campaign focuses on: securing effective U s. moratorium laws; bolstering elephant protection with additional funding;
and educating the public about the link between ivory consumption and the elephant poaching crisis. In Africa WCS is stopping the killing on the ground in 13 of Central
and Eastern Africa's most important parks--those harboring 26000 elephants and facing the greatest threat--from Nouabalã-Ndoki in Congo to Ruaha in Tanzania and Niassa in Mozambique.
WCS recruits equips trains and deploys park guards providing aerial and intelligence support and tracking where guards go
and sales of ivory and in Asia WCS assists concerned citizens who wish to educate their countrymen and women through social media about the lethal cost of ivory to Africa's elephants.
Nighttime recording of forest elephants trumpeting around a bai: This is taken at the middle of the night.
You have a salt marsh where the elephants come and use it as part of their diet.
The structure of the landscape and the unique resource being used by the elephants create a one-of-a-kind soundscape.
We need to think about how to preserve the landscape around the elephant so the sounds can be propagated in a way that helps promote the animal.
 If a game park was short of food for elephants, you wouldn t introduce more elephants,
so why should we take this approach with bees?  The researchers calculate that to sufficiently meet the needs of every new hive, about one hectare (or about 2. 5 acres) of  borage,
Changing elephant poo to green paperjaipur/DELHI--The elephant ride up the stone pathway of the medieval Amber fort outside Jaipur is designed to make tourists feel like Rajput warriors returning from battle-or something on those fantastical lines.
stared at the mounds of dung plopping out at regular intervals as the elephants ambled up to the sandstone and marble palace.
 Much to the horror of his family, Shekhawat returned home with sacks of elephant poo to experiment
 The poo source Thrice a month, the two brothers set out on a motorbike to collect 1000kgs of dung from the elephant quarters behind the Amber fort.
Abdul Lateef, owner of four elephants rebuffed concerns that it is cruel to have chained elephants in small quarters
and then paraded out on stones that heat up in the sun. Å I treat them like my children,
Two female elephants stand in a shed surrounded by fodder and cocky monkeys. Despite being chained at the foot,
One elephant poops about 12 times everyday, which is around 180 kgs of dung that can produce 265 sheets of paper (an average size of 30x25 inches).
which begins in the elephant sheds behind the Rajput fort, leads to an ethnic market called Dilli Haat, a hugely popular hangout in the capital city.
But one sign catches the eyes a big elephant bottom with a cute curly tail that reads Å made using only the finest dung available in India.
 The shop contains various elephant poo products like paper, notepads, handicrafts, photoalbums and clocks.
elephant poo is like the cow dung, which is worshipped by millions of Indians. Even his elderly mother has made peace with the poo.
Scientific efforts to resurrect mammoths and other extinct species through cloning technology point toward a cheaper solution,
Russian and Japanese scientists announced early in December that they hoped to clone a mammoth within five years,
That s what the UK-based Energy Saving Trust concludes in its freshly minted report, The Elephant in the Living room:
reflecting not only the alarming numbers of elephants slaughtered but also the great demand in Asia that still fuels the international trade after it was outlawed in 1989.
since 2008--a massive stack belonging to about 1, 800 elephants and worth around US$90 million, based on recent valuations.
Elephants actually sleep three to seven hours a night, not two(#35. The Statue of liberty wasn't the first electric lighthouse(#179.
and see the elephant and then grow up loving elephants and understand what s going on with elephants,
which are the largest land mammal on earth. When people go to the zoo, they learn things like the giraffe has the same number of vertebrae as a human being.
Zoos will play a major role in conserving the earth s wildlife
Japan to grow human organs inside pigsâ Japanese researchers are seeking less conventional methods to ensure transplant waiting list patients can receive the organs they need--by growing them inside pigs.
Zoo professionals are in communication with people in the field about how to manage rhinos that are becoming extinct.
Maybe in several generations our children will not know lions and gorillas and rhinos. Prominent leaders in the zoo world are trying to see how they can move zoos to take a larger part in this movement of survival of both animals and habitats.
An elephant eating breakfast at the Safari Zoo in Ramat Gan, Israel/By Irus Braverman
Caffeine boosts memoryâ They say an elephant never forgets. This one is eating a coffee tree.
Photo above of elephant by Michael Allen Smith. Both via Flickr
Restaurant business innovation: Marijuana sauceyou're not in Indiana. Amsterdam's Manneken Pis chip shop, named after Brussels'famous pissing boy statue,
or taking an elephant's trunk, hooking it up to a heart/lung machine and then hooking the other end to a machine that induced the trunk to grow by applying tension.
and passed through an oven to produce a continuous stream of fresh, delicious elephant trunk pie.
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