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Nairobi, 11 February 2008
Philip Mwakio

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Seventeen African countries, including Kenya, have signed a document for the establishment of a coalition to save the elephant.

It was also agreed that a global elephant action plan that will fight illegal killing and trade in ivory be implemented.

By Brandon Keim
January 16, 2008 | 12:57:50 PM

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Hungarian researchers have written a program that explains the meaning of dogs' barks.

The software is still a bit buggy, but it's promising enough to suggest that computers could one day translate not only between humans, but between species.

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New York Times
When a Luxury Vacation Cultivates Philanthropy
[Some interesting remarks on philantropic safaris]

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Wash Your Clothes: Elephants Can Smell You a Mile Away
New York Times, United States - 7 hours ago
African elephants, it turns out, have this ability. Lucy A. Bates and Richard W. Byrne of the University of St. Andrews in Scotland and colleagues have ...

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JGI Will Expand Conservation Programs in Western Tanzania
E-Wire (press release), TX - 14 hours ago
The area is home to an estimated 540 chimpanzees, as well as other endangered primates and threatened species such as elephants. ...

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CBS News

The Ivory War CBS News, NY - 7 hours ago (CBS) 60 Minutes is going to take you to one of the last places where enormous herds of elephants—hundreds of them—range free across the African ...

One of the beer makes in Kenya, "Tusker", is very popular in the country. Even visiting Germans, beer aficionados par excellence, like it and attest to its good taste.

But there is something to its name that doesn't quite sound right today. "Tusker" is an old word for elephant, used by hunters and meaning the bearer of tusks, in those days the ultimate trophy.

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Science Centric

Social Standing Influences Elephant Movement Science Daily (press release) - Oct 29, 2007 At least that's the case with African elephants, according to a study led by ecologists at the University of California, Berkeley, who collaborated with ... Elephant 'pecking order' is established Earthtimes all 10 news articles