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In a tragic incident at a sanctuary in southern Thailand, local law enforcement has charged an elephant caretaker with negligence after a Spanish tourist lost her life due to an elephant attack. The unfortunate event unfolded last week at the Koh Yao Elephant Care Centre, located in Phang Nga province, where a “panic-stricken” elephant struck the 23-year-old woman with its trunk. Authorities have identified the mahout, an employee of the sanctuary, as responsible for failing to prevent this heartbreaking accident. "We’ve…

Farai Maguwu, the Director at the Center for Natural Resource Governance, has voiced strong apprehensions over such a proposal to cull elephants. He fears it would meet with intense backlash, reminiscent of the uproar following Namibia's similar decision. In Zimbabwe, approximately 100,000 elephants roam the land; however, the ecosystem can realistically support around 45,000. Complicating matters further, Zimbabwe faces restrictions on the sale of these majestic creatures due to the regulations set forth by the Convention…

Hamed is the name of an elephant that has been talked about in Ivory Coast for five years. According to the authorities, he moves from village to village and destroys plantations, huts, motorcycles and cars. Although he moved to a private reserve, N'zi River Lodge Park, in September last year, the pachyderm continues to cause damage.…

If the Covid-19 pandemic had ended the 2020 elephant looking season, the 2021 version opened on Tuesday, April 6, in Gaborone, the capital of Botswana. The trophy is nearly 300 elephants that hunters from Europe and the USA will strive to kill. That is the primary full looking season in Botswana, a rustic house to 130,000 pachyderms - the most important contingent on the earth - since a ban was lifted…

The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) will publish its new red list of endangered animals on Thursday, March 25. It has 37,480 endangered species against 35,765 in December 2020. And African forest elephants now fall into the category of "critically endangered" and "endangered" for savannah elephants. Forest elephants today occupy only a quarter of their original territory.…