Finally, the elephant stables, 12 chambers that would have fit two elephants each, now stand empty and silent.
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.
The two elephants have been suffering from tuberculosis, and the city authorities have insisted that they should be put to sleep as they pose a threat to other animals in the zoo and its visitors.
Two elephants lurk in the darkening room.
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Wildlife officials say in the last two years elephants have killed at least 180 people in Assam and Meghalaya.
"There are two big elephants in the room, " said Robert Taiwo, director of Whitespace Advisory, a global firm that works with companies looking to invest in Africa.
The 78-year-old Bardot said she will move to Russia in case the French authorities do not drop their plan to put down two sick elephants at a zoo in Lyon.
Elevated wooden walkways connect the great house to guest rooms and the villas, and nature is on display day and night, including a herd of more than two dozen elephants that visit frequently.
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Following Depardieu, the 78-year-old actress Brigitte Bardot threatened to seek a Russian passport in protest of the treatment of two sick zoo elephants.
Former French film star Brigitte Bardot has threatened to apply for Russian citizenship unless France stops two sick zoo elephants from being put down.
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In two years, elephants went from imminent danger of extinction to badly in need of contraception (the facts did not change, the reporting did).
Across the water, a small herd of elephants, two adults and a child, emerged from the brush, and closer to the canoe, a herd of water buffalo lay all but submerged in the bleary green waters, escaping the late morning sun.
They live mainly in Sabah and grow to about eight feet tall, a foot or two shorter than mainland Asian elephants.
The irritation is not diminished by the fact that the city council recently spent two weeks debating whether circus elephants should be allowed into the city (they are badly treated, said the opponents).
Officials estimated that 1, 700 forest elephants remain in the two Cameroonian parks.
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Arsenal striker Gervinho put his team ahead in the 21st minute with his second goal of the tournament, but the Elephants needed to wait until two minutes from the end before two-time African player of the year Toure curled in his second in two games.
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He starred in two non-Twilight projects in the past two years: Remember Me and Water for Elephants.
Not only are there strict rules against any harsh treatment of the animals, but also elephants may not play more than two 20-minute games a day and each animal is rewarded with sugar cane or rice balls full of molasses and rock salt after each match.
Burkina Faso's only hope is for them to win their last two qualifiers and for the Ivory Coast to lose their last two, even then the Stallions need big wins in order to overhaul the Elephants huge goal difference of plus 12.
And more than 200 elephants have been killed by angry villagers during the last six years in the two states, in what is developing into a fierce conflict between man and beast.
We followed lion tracks for hours, passing elephants, hippos, and giraffes along the way, until we found our jackpot: two lionesses licking a freshly killed impala carcass as six cubs nursed and frolicked around them.
The park is home to two-thirds of the world's one-horned rhino population and also has a large number of elephants, tigers and other wildlife.
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