Sentences with phrase «elephant conservation work»
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This gorgeous book, which includes the natural history and conservation status of African elephants and recent surprising discoveries of field scientists, will convince you that the elephant is one of nature's greatest and most original works.
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Pruthu had been working on elephant conservation at Yala National Park, a vast 242,000 - acre reserve outside Colombo that is home to elephants, leopards, wild buffalo, chital deer, and rare and magnificent birds like the lesser adjutant stork and the Malabar pied hornbill.
The study — the largest ever conducted on the African forest elephant — includes the work of more than 60 scientists between 2002 and 2011, and an immense effort by national conservation staff who spent a combined 91,600 days surveying elephants in 5 countries (Cameroon, Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon and the Republic of Congo), walking over 13,000 kilometers (more than 8,000 miles) and recording over 11,000 elephant dung piles for the analysis.
Working with mahout — Asian elephant trainers — trained elephants at the Thai Elephant Conservation Center in Lampang, the researchers first taught individual animals to pull the rope with their trunks.
Since Steppes began selling Kenya in 1989, we have worked on rhino projects with TUSK Trust, focused on elephant conservation with the Douglas - Hamiltons and supported numerous rural community projects.
Hutchinson, along with other scientists, worked with elephant experts at the Thai Elephant Conservation Center in Lampang, Thailand.
Although elephant protection and conservation is still a passion, Shawn now enjoys working with dogs professionally.
During veterinary school, she worked in Sri Lanka at an elephant conservation, and in Namibia, Africa at a cheetah conservation.
Through my work with elephants, I became pretty deeply involved in the conservation community, and passionate about conservation issues, especially around the challenges facing elephants.