snare trapped baby elephant dies

A baby, one-year-old, Sumatran elephant has died after losing half its trunk to a  snare trap set by poachers in Indonesia. The villagers in the town of Aceh Jaya found the calf and brought to conservation agency to be treated. The conservation officials said they tried to save its life by amputating its trunk, but…

Kenya counting animals

Kenya is conducting the biggest ever animal census to help with its conservation in specific wild life species. For the first time Kenya is counting animals Kenya, home to vulnerable and endangered species that includes lions, giraffes,  hundreds of elephants and the world’s only two surviving northern white Rhino species The East African country is…

Brighton cat serial killer is jailed for more than five years

Steve Bouquet, 54, from Brighton, was sentenced to five years and three months, at Hove Crown Court, for stabbing cats and other pets and left them dying on door steps. The cat killer was found guilty of attacking 16 cats in the East Sussex city killing nine. A Jury at Chichester Crown Court found the…

Two wild elephants rescued from sea

Two Asian elephants who had been separated from their herd in Myanmar waded across a river into Bangladesh have been led to safety after nearly dying at sea off the coast of Bangladesh. A four day ordeal stuck by the seas surrounded by onlookers, the wild elephants swam into the Bay of Bengal. Authorities rescued…

Elephant pops in for dinner

A wild elephant broke into a kitchen of a house in Thailand looking for food. According to the home owner, the same elephant was a regular visitor to the village and had similarly broken into his kitchen last month.