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Why are conservationists alarmed about Botswana’s biggest elephant hunt?

Speaking to Al Jazeera, Oaitse Nawa, founder of the Botswana-based Elephant Protection Society (EPS), said the number of elephants being hunted is “too high” and called on the government to revisit ...
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Botswana’s huge elephant gamble could destroy its ‘conservation reputation’, say scientists

If Botswana carries out its proposal to permit the world’s largest elephant hunt quota, it will provoke a fierce reckoning ...
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Africa’s Largest Elephant finds new home in a museum

The elephant with some of the longest, heaviest tusks in the world died at Amboseli National Park on Tuesday. Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) has moved the body of one of Africa’s last giant ‘tusker’ ...
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The Elephant Bird Regains Its Title as the Largest Bird That Ever Lived

History has not been kind to the elephant bird of Madagascar. Standing nearly 10 feet tall and weighing up to 1,000 pounds — or so researchers believed — this flightless cousin of the ostrich went ...
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The Biggest Elephant Ever Killed By Man: In the dense, wild bush of Angola, in Africa, a hunter tracks and kills the largest animal ever shot on earth

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Sports Illustrated article written by Josef J. Fénykövi about tracking his famous elephant that now stands in the Rotunda of the National Museum ...