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Tags: ELEPHANTS; ENDANGERED species
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- Painting for Peanuts. Linn, Laura // Scholastic News -- Edition 4;02/12/2001, Vol. 63 Issue 16, p4
Reports that the Thailand Elephant Art Project and the Thai Elephant Conservation Center have resorted to teaching Indian elephants to paint and play music to help save the endangered animals.
- Sugar for elephants. JS // Earth Island Journal;Summer94, Vol. 9 Issue 3, p12
Reveals that sugar plantation workers of Pelwatte Sugar Industries in Sri Lanka are trapping, shooting and poisoning endangered Asian elephants whose migration routes pass through plantation land. Pelwatte's leasing of increasing amounts of land around the proposed Handapangala Elephant Reserve...
- Return of elephant ivory trade sought. Stauble, Ann M. // Animals;Mar/Apr97, Vol. 130 Issue 2, p14
Focuses on the proposal to resume trade in African elephant parts at the meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). Nations that bans all forms of international trade in endangered species; Opinion of Teresa Telecky once the lucrative...
- Elephants and Compassion: Ecological Criticism and Southern African Hunting Literature. Wylie, Dan // English in Africa;Oct2001, Vol. 28 Issue 2, p79
Presents an ecological criticism on elephants. Highlights of the Convention on International Trade and Endangered Species; Connection of literary studies in southern Africa; Symbol of elephants in the embodiment of wild Africa.
- Beleaguered Pachyderms Get Help. Wille, Chris // Audubon;Jan1989, Vol. 91 Issue 1, p127
Discusses the number of African elephants killed annually to meet the demands of the market for ivory. Decline in elephant population; Habitat loss due to unbridled growth in human numbers; Impact of poaching on elephant populations; Scope of the African Elephant Conservation Act passed by the...
- ARIADNE. // New Scientist;10/19/91, Vol. 132 Issue 1791, p80
Focuses on the United Nations Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species. Recommendation to lift the ban on killing elephants and resume ivory trade; Importance of a single commercial outlet for the trade and a system of official stamping of tusks to ensure that no poached tusks...
- Look Who's Talking! // Weekly Reader News - Edition 3;9/9/2005, Vol. 75 Issue 1, p2
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- A Giant on Land. // Weekly Reader - Edition 2;9/20/2002, Vol. 72 Issue 4, p3
Provides information on African elephants. Description of the animal; Use of the tusks or big teeth of African elephants.
- THE WILDLIFE TRADE: POACHER OR GAMEKEEPER? Hogan, Rolf // UNESCO Courier;Jul/Aug2000, Vol. 53 Issue 7/8, p12
Discusses the impact of the decision to limit or ban trading in endangered species on governments and conservationists. Controversy on the plans to cull elephants in South Africa; Revenue from the trade of rhinoceros from South Africa; Impact of changing consumer habits.
