Cites said the three countries should be acknowledged for managing their elephant populations well.
Delegates rejected two similar applications by Zambia and Zimbabwe, arguing that they had not yet demonstrated that they could properly monitor and protect their elephant herds.
All five countries claim that their elephant populations are secure.
So being blind they had to reach out and touch the elephant as their way of seeing the elephant.
Most Dems are in denial about their one glaring, elephant-size flaw--a lack of positive ideas.
With their record of finding elephant fields, "it becomes almost a statistical play at some point, " Musselman says.
Despite the small percentage of funds generated by trophy hunters and their claims of conservation, elephant numbers have been on a steady decline.
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During our trip, the tour driver inadvertently parked in the path of a mother and baby elephant, obstructing their way to a watering hole.
Unlike apes which spend much of their time picking dirt and lice off their skin and fur, elephant preening is more about rolling in mud than removing it.
Dick Durbin assure us, not because they want to use federal money to indemnify their home state for a white-elephant prison Illinois taxpayers should never have built, but because Guantanamo Bay simply must be closed.
They then seemed to be checking whether the elephant in the mirror exactly copied their own actions by rhythmically moving their heads in and out of view.
Some, like the elephant, are capable of mourning for their kind if one dies.
Hunters can further customize their boots by providing their own animal hides--perhaps that of an elephant or hippo from an African safari.
Police are looking for a group of male youths seen running from the court in Elephant and Castle, some with scarves covering their faces and hoods up.
Realistically, only five other regions remain where an oil elephant may be found, and they all have their problems.
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Creatures that would not have let you approach to within 300 yards unaccompanied stand their ground and gaze imperturbably, presumably confident that if the elephant believe you are safe, then you are unlikely to prove a danger to them.
Backroads, a California company that offers bike tours of China, Bali and northern Thailand, lets participants cycle at their own pace and take a break from biking with sidetrips like elephant trekking or whitewater rafting (Tel: 1-510-527-1555).
As with the elephant crisis, the culprit is largely demand from Asia, where their horns are highly desired because they are believed to have medicinal properties.
The slaughter of rhino, the decimation of elephant, the forlorn last stand of the tiger - all had their profiles raised as the delegates in Bangkok negotiated their fate.
Here is the thing: we haven't talked about the ginormous elephant in the room, which is that banks borrow most of their money in the form of deposits provided by you and me.
In a more pacific mode, elephants were employed across South Asia and Indo-China in the logging industry, felling and carrying and transporting teak, where they were trained and superintended by elephant boys, or mahouts, who established a lifelong relationship with their animals.
He said they have received invitations from shelters to take in pets -- they even have one place that could house an elephant, if needed -- and many of the evacuation areas are allowing people to bring their furry friends.
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