September 06, 2006

• *shakes fist angrily* Were they hoping to keep it a secret? Can't be easy to hide 100 dead elephant caracasses. Right I'm off to weep into my breakfast. Thanks a lot sugarmilktea...
• That's so sad.
• Damn. Thanks for the post. This is, as usual, shocking but not surprising.
• I thought it was surprising. Why did you not think so shane?
• Oh. And one of my favorite movies for me and my little monkettes is The Wild Thornberries...
• . Poor elephants, to have to die for stupid people and their superstitions and greed. Can't we hold down poachers and yank out all their teeth?
• That makes me angry.
• Can't we hold down poachers and yank out all their teeth? You get the pliers, I'll get my gun.
• I'll bring the salt and vinegar crisps.
• Where is the demand for the ivory? Who buys this shit? This is upsetting.
• Sorry to make you wet your breakfast with tears gomi. Alas, this is the world in which we live. Very sad. Elephants are known to grieve, and have funerals for family members who have died. It makes me wonder how poaching on this scale affects the fiber of the entire elephant community residing in the park.
• Where is the demand for the ivory? The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora issued this report in 2004 [pdf]: The ivory market in China continues to be the most important influence on the trend. If Chinese demand is removed, the trend line is essentially flat from 1994 onwards, indicating that this single market alone accounts for the increase in illegal trade in ivory in recent years. China’s continuing commitment to effective law enforcement, however, could induce a reversal of this trend in the future.
• It's not only a shame. It's a shame they're not lawyers.
• An Elephant Crackup? Attacks by elephants on villages, people and other animals are on the rise. Some researchers are pointing to a specieswide trauma and the fraying of the fabric of pachyderm society.
• Elephant herds found on isolated south Sudan island
• What a great story. Thanks for this curious update! It's not that good a habitat for elephants, but they're free of people shooting at them...
• I was at the flea market on Sunday and there was a booth selling African imports. The centerpiece: A lamp made from two huge elephant tusks. Not an antique.
• Attacks by elephants ... are on the rise Elephants are big fellas. Give 'em some room, folks. Oh, wait. We need to crap on every square foot of this earth.
• Sure it's ugly, but this is how it's always been. The have's (and I hope I'm among them) will seek status symbols such as elephant tusk floor lamps. I'm a big guy and I need a big floor lamp, and it affords me the status I seek. If you have an energy efficient, non-endangered-species destroying floor lamp, what does that say about you?
• We need to crap on every square foot of this earth. Don't forget MonkeyFilter teh Intertubes GramMa!
• Elephant Walk
• Elephants Evolve Smaller Tusks Due to Poaching
• British kill entire elephant herd: Hunting parties are paying out thousands to kill elephants, including calves, in Zimbabwe
• Poachers kill last female rhino in South African park for prized horn
• Helicopters should be banned! Those goddamn things are the root cause of so much trouble. Not just with helping poachers either. And the goddam light planes work in tandem with them? Of course. BAN THEM ALL!
• Excluding the backpacked paraflight option of course... These horns are supposed to increase virility, hence the market. We could nip THAT in the bud. No, THAT would be going too far, rather like ripping off a rhino's horn, as it were.
• Elephants Dying in Epic Frenzy as Ivory Fuels Wars and Profits In Poaching Frenzy, Africa’s Elephants Vanishing
• Can we take all the elephants and put them somewhere safe?
• In the fridge? With the butter?
• That's how you know they've been in the fridge. Elephant tracks in the butter.
• Ivory Worship: Thousands of elephants die each year so that their tusks can be carved into religious objects.