Forest elephants are distinguished from the more familiar savanna elephants by their smaller size and straighter tusks.
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Given these conditions, legal trade in ivory would disproportionately threaten both African forest elephants and Asian elephants.
As for those classified under origin and transit countries, Mozambique failed on rhinos and elephants, and Laos on tigers and elephants.
The plights of wild African elephants, gunned down for their ivory, and domesticated Asian elephants, made redundant by powered machinery, are well known.
Events include wild elephant hunts, tug-of-war between elephants and men, demonstrations of log-pulling skills, and a parade of elephants outfitted for medieval warfare.
Of these, the majority (about 250-350, 000) are savannah elephants, most of the rest are forest elephants and a mere 12, 000 are West African elephants.
There are fewer than 50, 000 Asian elephants remaining on earth, and about 4, 000 of them are in Thailand, which once had a proud tradition of honoring its elephants.
There were once hundreds of elephants roaming this area, but hunting and deforestation have almost wiped out the population, with as few as one or two elephants remaining in the wild.
Mr Plotnik and his colleagues placed a white cross above the elephants' right eyes and an invisible cross over the left eye, so that neither smell nor a memory of paint being applied should tell the elephants where the conspicuous marking was.
The trails are named the Elephant Walks in homage to the wild elephants that once lived here.
Zebras, rhinos and elephants roam the fields, while big cats nervously pace back and forth in cages.
Finally, the elephant stables, 12 chambers that would have fit two elephants each, now stand empty and silent.
Three elephants have been killed by a train in the Indian state of West Bengal.
"These are roughly 250 elephants that have been killed, " the Daily Nation quotes him as saying.
The elephants seem to be wary of getting bitten on the soft undersides of their trunks.
Since the decline of the local logging industry, tourism is all that's left for the elephants.
The elephants, all in their 40s, have been residents at the park since 1997.
These include camels, zebras and snakes, but not elephants, monkeys, gorillas, chimpanzees or big cats.
Cue all manner of special effects: spiders the size of hubcaps, elephants in the hallway.
The last oil elephants are in fact thousands of miles away, in East Africa.
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It was a decision to save the elephants in the rest of the world from extinction.
The Elephants, who are playing in the tournament at guests, broke the deadlock on 19 minutes.
This park is famous for its elephants and rhinos and infamous for its poachers.
This antipathy can be overcome, but only when elephants provide surrounding peoples with a monetary benefit.
Even though elephants don't eat cotton and tobacco, they trample through these cash crops anyway.
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Out of earshot nearby, lions will be grunting, baboons barking and elephants busy demolishing a tree.
"Every day there's something going on, " says Carolyn of juggling shoes, wine, wellness, and elephants.
Elephants will feature heavily as the global demand for ivory is driving poaching to unprecedented levels.
The deafening noise had scared off elephants, giraffes and other wild animals, he said.
About 4, 000 elephants remain in Thailand, despite the fact the animal is the country's national symbol.
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