Sentences with phrase «african elephants»

Still, Zambia tried to win support for downlisting its population of African elephants from CITES Appendix I, which bans all commercial sales, to Appendix II, which allows sales under a permit system.

WildAid writes, «African elephants are currently found in 37 countries in sub-Saharan Africa.

Save the Elephants uses cell phones to quickly communicate the locations of GPS - collared African elephants to farmers so that they can do what they can to avoid negative effects to their farm and ugly confrontations between themselves and the animals.

While poaching has declined a bit as of late, some 20,000 African elephants are still slaughtered for their tusks each year, much in part to meet ivory demand from Asia, particularly China, notes Simon Denyer in The Washington Post.

Genetic, morphological, ecological, and behavioral evidence supports identifying African elephants as two separate and distinct species: Loxodonta africana (savannah elephants) and Loxodonta cyclotis (forest elephants).

Other threats to African elephants include the loss and degradation of habitat, conflict with humans and habitat loss.

In recent years, up to 33,000 African elephants have been killed annually for their ivory tusks.

The decision comes on the heels of years of mounting global pressure to stem the mass killings and threatened extinction of African elephants.

An estimated 35,000 African elephants are now being illegally killed for their tusks each year; however, some scientists believe the numbers are much higher.

A recent study found that 100,000 African elephants were killed between 2010 - 2012 alone.

«Members of the scientific community are particularly aware of the destructive effects the ivory trade is having on populations of African elephants,» said Dr. Susan Lieberman, Vice President of International Policy at the Wildlife Conservation Society and a signatory to the letter.

The ivory trade is the commercial, often illegal trade inthe ivory tusks of the hippopotamus, walrus, narwhal, [1] mammoth, [2] andmost commonly, Asian and African elephants.

The outcome of this project will be the creation of an educational tool that will raise awareness of the plight of African elephants and other species threatened by poaching and illegal trade and help motivate people to take action to help save endangered wildlife around the world.

In just the span of two years from 2010 - 2012, 100,000 African elephants were killed by poachers for their ivory and the species is in danger of extinction in the next couple of decades if the poaching continues at this rate.

Or in the case of African elephants at least, it takes a mom and her female relatives.

Here, his photograph provides a vivid reminder that African elephants are hardly the only species imperiled by poaching and smuggling:

Like all African elephants, this sweet one - day old babe will be raised by mom as well as his «allomothers.»

Tristin Lowe's 2001 piece, Dumbo, was in residence at Milk Studios during Made Fashion week to promote the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation's new initiative to raise awareness about the killing of African Elephants for ivory.

Artist Jenny Kendler algorithmically translates data predicting future poaching of African elephants into a score for a vintage ivory - keyed player piano — which concludes when the population count reaches zero.

With Music for Elephants, interdisciplinary artist Jenny Kendler algorithmically translates data predicting future poaching of African elephants into a score for a vintage ivory - keyed player piano.

It is acclaimed for the dune elephants, a herd of African Elephants that have been living here for generations.

Tembe Elephant Game Park is just as enthralling, home to the biggest African elephants in the world.

It is acclaimed for the dune elephants, a herd of African Elephants that have...

Yes, riding ostriches was fun, but for me, feeding these African elephants was one of my favorite experiences, ever.

We had quite a few more elephant interactions later on our travels while in Asia but nothing came close to our experience with these African elephants.

Chobe National Park in Botswana is the place to go to see African elephants.

The third largest national park in South Africa, Addo Elephant Park in the Eastern Cape has one of the densest populations of African Elephants in the world.

But it is also home to a vast array of wildlife species, including a large population of African Elephants.

From African elephants in Chad to Channel island foxes in the US, here are the 7 inspiring stories of species whose numbers are increasing.

According to government records, there are less than 43,000 African elephants left in Tanzania, and the world's last male white rhino lives under constant guard.

Want to save African elephants or work in a Sydney hotel?

Asian elephants are perhaps not as well known in the West as African elephants, although they are also highly endangered.

Power - packed photos and prose transport readers to the dusty world of African elephants and a woman who studies them.

Properly equipped, the Ram HD can pull up to 15 tons, roughly the equivalent of two full - grown African elephants.

It is... Thats 4,409,245,244 lbs which equals the weight of 367,437 African elephants or 6 Empire State Buildings!

We identified infant rumbles based on acoustic data from African elephants at Disney's Animal Kingdom (0 — 3 yrs; n = 120 rumbles), in which infants aged 0 — 2 yrs produced rumbles with mean fundamental frequencies above 20 Hz and mean durations below 1.5 sec.

The Samburu pastoralists of Northern Kenya co-exist with African elephants, Loxodonta africana, and compete over resources such as watering holes.

Audio playback experiments demonstrate that African elephants produce alarm calls in response to the voices of Samburu tribesmen.

By using playback experiments to systematically assess social discrimination skills in relation to developmental history, we provide the first direct evidence that abilities to process information on social identity and age - related dominance are severely compromised among African elephants that had experienced separation from family members and translocation decades previously.

Small fragments of mitochondrial DNA were eventually sequenced, confirming the Asian Elephant's close kinship to the Woolly Mammoth — even closer than to African Elephants.

Within the past week, Thailand officials seized seven tons of ivory, representing the slaughter of hundreds of African elephants for illegal trade.

There's just one problem, a new study says: African elephants grow and reproduce too slowly to support a robust global trade in the material, used for carvings and jewelry.

Trying to essentially farm African elephants for their tusks will likely «kick them into extinction,» he says.

More than 20,000 African elephants are killed every year for their ivory, according to an analysis by CITES MIKE Program (Monitoring the Illegal Killing of Elephants).

Collectively, they weigh more than 240 billion African elephants.

Poachers are once again decimating African elephants.

Preliminary analysis shows that the mammoth was a female who shared 98.55 % of her DNA with modern African elephants, the researchers report online this week in Science.

Researchers have discovered that African elephants can tell certain human languages apart and even determine our gender, relative age, and whether we're a threat just by listening to us.

People in New York City's Times Square will witness plumes of pulverized bone erupt as the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service crushes one ton of confiscated ivory Friday to protest the illegal poaching of African elephants for the ivory trade.

About 23,000 African elephants were killed by poachers last year, and the death count is on the rise.