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 Stories About: Cambodia AND Vietnam AND wildlife
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Elephants: Never Forget
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26 Feb 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Elephants: Never Forget A shocking 80 percent of wild elephants in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam fell victim to the ivory trade between 1988 and 2000, according to a report issued yesterday by Save the Elephants. The report blamed French, Spanish, Italian, German, Japanese, and Chinese tourists for driving ... |
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| Topics: Cambodia, China, France, Germany, Indonesia, international government agencies, Italy, Japan, Laos, Nepal, Spain, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Trunk Driving
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15 Nov 2001 |
Daily Grist |
| Trunk Driving A plan to save one of the last remaining wild herds of elephants in Vietnam got off to an inauspicious start earlier this week, with the deaths of two elephants. A team of elephant experts spotted the two on Monday and shot them with tranquilizer darts, hoping to sedate them for the long trip from their deforested home to a nature reserve near Cambodia. One of the elephants was captured and chained ... |
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| Topics: Cambodia, deforestation, Vietnam, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Tusk, Tusk
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01 Oct 2001 |
Daily Grist |
| Tusk, Tusk Decades of war, poaching, and habitat destruction have decimated Vietnam's Asian elephant population, a trend the Vietnamese government is belatedly trying to reverse. Following a September agreement between Vietnam and Cambodia to cooperate on elephant conservation, a herd of elephants in Vietnam will be moved by truck from the southern coastal province of Binh Thuan to Dak Lak on the Cambodian border. There are onl ... |
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| Topics: Cambodia, Vietnam, wildlife (all these topics) |
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