Slaughter of Sumatran Elephants Reaches New High
By Harry Pearl
In May 2014, Indonesian police swooped in on two notorious wildlife traders in the coastal town of Meulaboh in West Aceh. Acting on information gleaned from a one-and-a-half-year investigation, authorities seized five kilograms of ivory, a set of elephant teeth, and 650 kilograms of elephant bone.
The two men, who were arrested at a small restaurant in the port town, were also found in possession of a live orangutan, tiger cub, and pelts from numerous jungle cats …
VICE News – January 30, 2015 | 06:30 pm
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PETA India Turns Sunder’s Home Into Free-Roaming, Forested Sanctuary (Video)
Posted by Dan
PETA India and Bannerghatta Biological Park (BBP) have teamed up to create India’s first free-roaming elephant sanctuary in a fenced, forested land that allows elephants to move about rather than be chained in place, the common way in which captive elephants in India are kept …
PETA.org.uk (press release) (blog) – Jan 30, 2015 at 02:34 PM
blog.peta.org.uk/2015/01/peta-…
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