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Bannerghatta foresters get set to capture two wild elephants

Edit The Times of India 19 Oct 2016
Experts from Madikeri are busy building two kraals (enclosures) to capture two jumbos from a herd of about 12 bull elephants, which have run riot in the stretch between Bannerghatta and Tumakuru ... Sources in the forest department told TOI that trained captive elephants (kumkis) from Mysuru (some Dasara elephants as well), Shivamogga and other places will be brought in for the operation, which will begin in the next few weeks....

Release elephant from Tirupati zoo: HSI

Edit The Times of India 19 Oct 2016
... no evidence of the elephant having injured or killed any person before ... Hence, it would not be in the interest of wildlife welfare to place another elephant in captivity....

Debate Watch Party and Ballot Measure Forum (NANDC - North Area Neighborhood Development Council)

Edit Public Technologies 19 Oct 2016
Please join me along with Congressmember Karen Bass, Assemblymember Autumn Burke, Democratic Caucus Chair Mike Gipson, Senator Isadore Hall, Board of Equalization Board Member Jerome Horton, Inglewood City Clerk Yvonne Horton, Assemblymember Reggie Jones-Sawyer, LA Community College Trustee Sydney Kamlager, LAUSD Board Member George McKenna, ......

Museums join in hope of unifying city’s black, Latino communities

Edit Chicago Sun-Times 19 Oct 2016
It’s long been the elephant in the living room; in Chicago, manifesting in unspoken tension over jobs and city contracts as one population increased, and the other decreased. Nationally, it’s played out in the relative silence of many African Americans on immigration reform, a hot-button issue for Latinos; and in the similar relative silence of many Latinos on police brutality, a hot-button issue for African Americans....

‘Sirimanotsavam’ celebrated amidst a sea of humanity

Edit The Hindu 19 Oct 2016
Ranga Rao supervised the security arrangements at the temple. Since early hours in the morning, devotees stood in queue to have darshan of the goddess ... As ‘Paaladhara’ (tastefully decorated fishermen’s net), Anjali Ratham and Iravatham (replica of an elephant) moved ahead of the Sirimaanu, devotees rained bananas as an offering to the goddess ... While hereditary trustees of the temple and Union Civil Aviation Minister P....

Vox Sentences: Ecuador cuts the cord on Julian Assange

Edit Vox 19 Oct 2016
Vox Sentences is your daily digest for what's happening in the world, curated by Dara Lind and Dylan Matthews. Sign up for the Vox Sentences newsletter, delivered straight to your inbox Monday through Friday, or view the Vox Sentences archive for past editions. Ecuador not-exactly-but-pretty-much accuses WikiLeaks of trying to tamper with the US elections; why Hillary Clinton's inner circle is demoralized (hint....

There’s A Mighty Big Plot Hole In The DNC’s Lawsuit Defense

Edit Inquisitr 19 Oct 2016
According to the Dems, Russia hacked us and stole fake emails ... Democrat logic tells us not to vote Green because last time it brought us the Iraq invasion, so you should vote for the woman who supported the Iraq invasion instead. They want us to stop corruption by putting the corrupted candidate in office ... But the worst is yet to come ... But here is the big one, the big elephant in the room that no one seems to be addressing....

We can save elephants. But can we save wild elephants?

Edit The Guardian 18 Oct 2016
I have just returned from Kenya’s North Eastern Province where one night, camped out in a dry riverbed with just a mosquito net for cover, a herd of elephants emerged out of the dark – a great and almost silent mass of shapes ... From the late 1970s, elephant conservation strategy took two interrelated forms ... On the contrary; I’ve lived and worked in protected areas home to some of the finest populations of elephant....

Disposal of Investment- 18.10.2016 (Elephant Capital plc)

Edit Public Technologies 18 Oct 2016
The directors will now undertake a review of Elephant Capital's working capital requirements in a cost and tax effective manner with a view to maximising any surplus to its shareholders. A further announcement, regarding the return of ......

Elephants never forget: Baby 'rescues' favourite trainer

Edit NZ Herald 18 Oct 2016
Incredible footage shows an elephant rushing to the rescue of her favourite trainer, who she believed to be drowning.The video shows elephant Kham Lha wading across the river at the Elephant Nature Park in Chiang Mai, Thailand.... ....

Elephant herd raids farms in Kodaikanal

Edit The Hindu 18 Oct 2016
The elephants entered two farms owned by Alex and Kaliappan. The elephants are reportedly raiding farms ......

VIDEO: Baby elephant 'rescues' man from river

Edit WPTV 18 Oct 2016
The co-founder of an elephant foundation showed just how loving and brave the big mammals can be ... The ......

How an IFAW project has reinvented a struggling African community (IFAW - International Fund for Animal Welfare)

Edit Public Technologies 18 Oct 2016
At IFAW, we believe in the intrinsic value of animals and that means not killing elephants to save them, as is the way in many other countries in the region ... I told the village chiefs that IFAW would protect the people of the village whilst at the same time increasing security for the elephants that lived in the park ... As we made our way to the ......
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