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PARIS, France (AFP) — Stopping the killing of elephants for their tusks could add some $25 million (23 million euros) to Africa’s annual tourism income, more than offsetting the anti-poaching spend, a study said Tuesday. While the figure pales in comparison to the estimated value of the black market ivory trade in China, it represents about a fifth of tourist income for game parks in 14 countries, where half of Africa’s elephants are located, the […]
by Nasir JAFFRY ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AFP) — Pakistan’s lonely elephant Kaavan has become the subject of a high-profile rights campaign backed by music icon Cher, but efforts to improve the pachyderm’s lot appear limited. The 32-year-old Asian elephant is suffering from “mental illness”, and without a better habitat his future is bleak even if a long-promised new mate finally arrives, experts told AFP. Outrage over Kaavan’s treatment went global — with a petition garnering over […]
An elephant that had been forced to carry people on its back for 15 years in Cambodia’s tourism industry has collapsed and died after transporting two tourists on its back in blistering heat. Facebook User Yem Senok posted pictures of the collapsed elephant, an elderly female one known as Sambo. Reports say Sambo collapsed on the roadside while carrying two tourists to an ancient Cambodian Temple in Angkor Wat near Bakheng Mountain. According to the […]
Experts warned that Africa faces a poaching crisis that is likely to see a further decline in the number of wild elephants on the continent at a summit in Botswana on Monday (March 23). Delegates from Europe, Africa and Asia attended the Africa Elephant summit held in the northern Botswana town of Kasane. Experts from the United Nations body that polices the global ivory trade, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), said […]
