Rick Scott's Elephant Of A Fail
As a GOP governor of Florida, one might think that Rick Scott would know how to deal with elephants. That's apparently not the case. Scott met with...
As a GOP governor of Florida, one might think that Rick Scott would know how to deal with elephants. That's apparently not the case. Scott met with...
AP | Posted 05.23.2012
BOMASSA, Republic of Congo -- A wildlife official says that about 5,000 elephants have been killed by poachers over the past five years around the Nou...
AP | Posted 05.16.2012
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) — An official says a second endangered Sumatran elephant has been poisoned in western Indonesia, apparently by villagers ...
Leora Novick | Posted 05.10.2012
My first stop was Hava Mehel or the Wind Palace, a giant, one-walled palace that served as a façade for the royal women.
AP | Posted 05.01.2012
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) — A ranger says an endangered Sumatran elephant has died in a palm oil plantation in western Indonesia, apparently after ...
AP | SUE MANNING | Posted 04.26.2012
LOS ANGELES — An African elephant is still welcome at a California sanctuary after killing a zookeeper who was preparing to move the animal from...
The Huffington Post | David Moye | Posted 04.16.2012
Elephants never forget -- especially about the burning intensity of chili peppers. And that fiery fact is helping farmers in Tanzania, who are bein...
Posted 04.09.2012
It looks as if scientists have finally caught a glimpse of life on Mars—well, at least something that looks like life. NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Or...
AP | Posted 04.06.2012
FELLSMERE, Fla. -- Officials have broken ground on a new elephant sanctuary in Florida. The National Elephant Center is being built on a 225-acre plo...
Posted 03.28.2012
Attention: An elephant is playing with a smartphone. Need we say more? Peter the elephant channels his inner techie and spends the day playing ...
Steven Sanderson | Posted 05.22.2012
The marriage of hunting and conservation may be troubled, but it is not time for divorce. Private hunting- and fishing-based organizations contribute to habitat preservation.
Randall | Posted 05.15.2012
Donald Trump has to deal with his beyond privileged sons, Eric and Donald Jr. Sponsors are starting to pull themselves from Celebrity Apprentice, and why not? As long as these two "sporty" hunters, continue to co-host the program with "daddy," there's no reason to support the show as long as Don Jr. refuses to apologize and drop his "holier than thou," 1983 elitist attitude.
Denise M. Wilbanks | Posted 05.13.2012
Fear and will are a magnificent duo through which anyone can land on solid ground when it comes to breaking down that which appears to be larger than life.
Ken White | Posted 05.09.2012
Everywhere I turn, I am struck by strong and conflicting realities: the beauty of being here, and the fact that it is my own species' presence which has put this all at such risk.
Oddee.com | Posted 03.09.2012
Horse racing is one of the world's most popular sports, but some people need a little more excitement in their lives. For those, how about a riviti...
Posted 03.09.2012
Baby elephants, like baby humans, don't need much to keep them entertained. In the case of Lucas, this little fellow at the Toledo Zoo, a pile of d...
The past few tens of millennia were hard times for the "megafauna" of the world. Hundreds of big-bodied species—from the mammoths of North America t...
Ken White | Posted 04.30.2012
Back when my wife and I first married we promised ourselves that someday we'd travel to Africa and see the elephants and lions. We just fulfilled that promise by celebrating our 25th wedding anniversary on safari to Tanzania.
Posted 02.17.2012
From Mother Nature Network's Laura Moss: The Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus will be allowed to use bullhooks on elephants during its ...
AP | MICHELLE FAUL | Posted 04.17.2012
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Poachers have slaughtered at least 200 elephants in the past five weeks in a patch of Africa where they are more dangerously end...
Posted 02.13.2012
Is it art? That’s a question artists sometimes hear about their own work. But a new exhibition at a London museum raises the question of whether ani...
Jim Calio | Posted 04.10.2012
Slowly, the other elephants moved away with the baby. Off to the right, up on a hill, a magnificent male lion, his mane golden in the morning sun, sat watching the entire spectacle, having eaten his fill already.
AP | Posted 01.24.2012
JAKARTA, Indonesia -- The Sumatran elephant could be extinct in the wild within three decades unless immediate steps are taken to slow the breakneck p...
Milkshake | Posted 03.18.2012
If the clever design and intricate workmanship wasn't quite enough to tempt you, this might help: 10 percent of all profits from the Elephant Collection will go to helping keep parentless elephants alive.
Posted 01.09.2012
The Greatest Show on Earth is in town at the American Airlines Arena, but not everyone is pleased that the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus i...
The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 05.24.2012