Word: elephantitis
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On its face, the proposition sounds eminently reasonable. Namibia, Zimbabwe and Botswana have elephants the way New York City apartments have cockroaches. Elephants roam everywhere, tearing down trees by the acre, galumphing through the crops of irate farmers, stomping on hapless citizens. Zimbabwe alone has about 65,000 of the...
That's largely because of vigorous elephant-conservation efforts. But conservation is expensive, and these relatively poor countries feel that they should be able to recoup some of their losses. Namibia and Zimbabwe say they would use part of the proceeds to compensate citizens whose property and livelihoods are being...
So in January the three countries made a formal proposal to CITES, seeking permission to sell about 30 tons of ivory a year exclusively to Japan, where ivory is used primarily to carve the personalized seals known as hankos. With only a single customer to absorb all their ivory, there...
"Audubon's Birds of America is a book which everyone has heard of and which everyone wants to see at least once in his lifetime." Thus, in 1888, wrote George Brown Goode, assistant secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, about the stunning and still famous masterwork produced by John James Audubon...
The dogs are nonetheless more tolerable than the elephant act, which is uncomfortable to watch. Joining the dogs in being "born again," the elephants (one of them over 50) were rescued from other circus. But after a few moments of the performers prancing around on the elephants' backs in frilly...