elephants

Follow a group of scientists as they traverse the Namib Desert on foot to map a new 15-million-acre wildlife park in the heart of the African desert. Includes stunning photos and video.

In the last decade, in all the year lot of wildlife are killed by train accident in walayar forest and nearby areas. This include killing of elephants, which has become a permanent story to public, press and media. Within 4 months, 5 elephants are killed in this area.Un accounted number of other wildlife including Sambar deer, mouse deer, monkeys, reptails etc have lost their lives on railway track all the year. In walayar especially in forest area, there are two rail tracks. One passes through deep inside the forest and another one on the fringes.

Killing of 4 elephants at Kurumbanpalayam near Madukkarai in coimbatore forest division (Tamil Nadu, India). 2 Tuskers, one Pregnant one and its infant are killed. 4 boggies of the train went out of track! one tusker is dragged to about 250 meters...

Large mammals have disappeared from four-fifths of the earth's landscape during the last 500 years. This conclusion comes from researchers who compared maps of where mammals used to roam with where they live nowadays. In the process, the study identified 108 sites on the planet that have retained a full complement of mega-fauna.

Coffee is still being illegally grown in sensitive national parks in Indonesia, and big corporations like Nestle are still buying it to produce cheap instant coffee a year after being exposed by the World Wildlife Fund. And consumers keep buying the coffee, as Nestle posted big profits in its beverage division.

They might be giants, but African elephants are now running in fear from one of the continent’s smaller animals—honey bees, enlisted in the fight against crop-raiding pachyderms.

Maggie the elephant packed her trunk and said goodbye to Alaska at the weekend. The zoo in Anchorage has finally agreed to move its lone elephant to California after a lengthy debate that has pitched the interests of the 25-year-old animal against those keen to keep the state's only elephant at the zoo.

Elephants flee the sound of angry bees, with the vast majority turning to run within seconds of hearing the sound of buzzing, scientists said.

The findings are surprising because elephant skin was thought to be so thick that bee stings do not make any impression.

Then I came upon the Grooming Lounge Ivory Shave Brush. Do they mean real ivory? I doubt it. I hope not. At $70, probably not. (These brushes range from $12-150 and $70 is high average for any type of handle.) Most of the other white handled brushes say imitation ivory in one form or another. This one just said ivory. Why?