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    <pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 19:37:18 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Island's pits of despair &amp;#40;Indonesia&amp;#41;</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Sakura was in big trouble. The three-year-old elephant had fallen backwards into a well three metres deep, and was trapped. She had been there for nearly two weeks without food or water. Her mother and the herd had finally given up and moved on. ]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Stopping Elephant Poaching in Southeast Cameroon</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Game rangers in Yokadouma, East Province of Cameroon, recentlyconfiscated 13 elephant tusks and made some arrests.The tusks were tucked away in a timber truck.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 09:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Small skirmishes mark Asia battle to save elephants</title>
      <description><![CDATA[KOMPONG SPEU, Cambodia (Reuters) - From nightfall until 3 a.m. the villagers of Trang Troyeung commune, in Cambodia's southwest Kompong Speu province, battled to protect their banana grove from attacks by elephants.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 09:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Man-jumbo conflict again in A’pura &amp;#40;Sri Lanka&amp;#41;</title>
      <description><![CDATA[The residents of several areas including Shravastipura, Siyambalawewa and Aluthwewa in Anuradhapura are facing problems from wild elephants. They have complained to the police and the Wildlife Conservation Department that a herd of wild elephants that roam the human habitat after dusk had destroyed more than 400 acres of cultivated land and 15 houses.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 17:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Elephants avoiding mines &amp;#40;Angola&amp;#41;</title>
      <description><![CDATA[AMHERST - Eliminated from Angola during more than two decades of civil war, herds of African elephants are crossing heavily mined fields as they recolonize Angola from neighboring Namibia and Botswana. But miraculously, they are avoiding the mines entirely, according to researchers at University of Massachusetts in Amherst who are tracking them via global positioning system satellites.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 17:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Elephants In Laos Rapidly Disappearing</title>
      <description><![CDATA[VIENTIANE, Laos - Connie Speight has swayed on elephant-back through unforgiving jungle and has adopted nine of the high-maintenance beasts. At 83, the retired American teacher is back in this Southeast Asian country to help save what remains of the once mighty herds.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 17:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Lions, Elephants Speared Near Kenya Wildlife Park</title>
      <description><![CDATA[At least three lions and up to four elephants have been killed on the fringes of Kenya's popular Amboseli National Park in recent weeks, conservationists say, part of an increasingly tense competition between the area's people and wildlife. The conservation group Lion Guardians says two lions were speared to death on March 9 and another was killed last month. That brings the total to at least ten lions killed in the last eight months and 162 killed near Amboseli since 2001.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 17:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Elephant rescued from well &amp;#40;India&amp;#41;</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Indian villagers in the southern state of Tamil Nadu awoke to find a thirsty elephant trapped in the village's well. At 20 feet, the depth of the well prevented the elephant from escaping on its own.]]></description>
      <link>http://savetheelephants.nexxus.info/news-reader/items/elephant-rescued-from-well-40india41.html</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 17:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Elephants without borders</title>
      <description><![CDATA[A few months ago, when he was traveling in the border region between Ethiopia and Eritrea, Prof. Jeheskel Shoshani found the corpse of a large elephant that had been shot by hunters. "It was a large male, and the poachers wanted its ivory, so they sawed off its head," he says. "When I saw that, I thought about the last moments in the life of this elephant. Elephants have language - they talk to one another with sounds that we can't hear. I asked myself what sound he made a moment before he died.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 17:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Surgery at Zoo Could Halt Elephant Killing</title>
      <description><![CDATA[It's a scientific fact: Placed in front of a mirror, an elephant will recognize itself. The thick-skinned beasts are intelligent, self-aware creatures that will cry over the dead bodies of family members, even in the wild. Perhaps that's why a recent announcement by South African authorities that they would begin culling—or killing—herds of elephants as early as May 1 created such a public outcry.]]></description>
      <link>http://savetheelephants.nexxus.info/news-reader/items/super-size-surgery-at-next-gen-zoo-could-halt-elephant-killing.html</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 17:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Barbed wire keeps elephants away from rail tracks</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Coimbatore, March 13 (IANS) To prevent elephants being hit by speeding trains, the ministries of environment and forests and of railways are considering setting up barbed wire fencing along several hundred kilometres of rail tracks in the Western Ghat forests straddling the borders of Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Karnataka.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>A simple string that keeps elephants away &amp;#40;India&amp;#41;</title>
      <description><![CDATA[NAGAON, March 12 – It is another David and Goliath battle where the former prevails again. A string, and just that, has been able to play a role in halting the onslaught of the biggest of land animals. In parts of Nagaon district, strategically deployed strings in the path of wild elephants have resulted in reducing human elephant conflict to an unexpected degree, to the extent that some people have called it sheer magic.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Trophy Hunters Bring in Millions &amp;#40;Namibia&amp;#41;</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Trophy hunting in Namibia is estimated to generate around N$500 million per year. Hunting quotas given to communal area conservancies in the past two years earned the conservancies around N$11 million per year. In addition to employment creation, goods and services and taxation, it is estimated that income from trophy hunting is much more and is expected to be around N$500 million.]]></description>
      <link>http://savetheelephants.nexxus.info/news-reader/items/trophy-hunters-bring-in-millions-40namibia41.html</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Kenya wildlife rangers kill poacher during shootout...</title>
      <description><![CDATA[NAIROBI, Kenya: Wildlife rangers shot and killed a notorious poacher who killed 17 elephants and nine endangered black rhinos in the last five years, the Kenya Wildlife Service said Friday.]]></description>
      <link>http://savetheelephants.nexxus.info/news-reader/items/kenya-wildlife-rangers-kill-poacher-during-shootout.html</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 15 Dec 2006 12:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
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