Johannesburg — An elephant attack that left an American woman dead in Zambia was captured in harrowing cellphone video over the weekend. The clip, shot by tourists in Zambia’s Kafue National Park, begins inside an open safari vehicle during a game drive. In the distance, a large bull elephant can be seen coming toward the … Read more
Germany’s environment ministry has proposed stricter laws on importing hunting trophies – a move that the president of Botswana says would “impoverish people in his country.” Botswana President Mokgweetsi Masisi has told German media that elephant numbers had exploded in Botswana as a result of conservation efforts. He said trophy hunting helped keep these numbers … Read more
“Babar” author Laurent de Brunhoff, who revived his father’s popular picture book series about an elephant-king and presided over its rise to a global, multimedia franchise, has died. He was 98. De Brunhoff, a Paris native who moved to the U.S. in the 1980s, died Friday at his home in Key West, Florida, after being … Read more
GUA MUSANG: The staff at SK Pasir Linggi, Pos Lebir, were rattled by the presence of a wild elephant that damaged plants within their school premises last Friday. School principal, Mat Ail Ibrahim, 53, said that it was the first time such an incident occurred within the school grounds, adding that the elephant damaged banana … Read more
