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18 Elephants on a Plane: Move From Swaziland to U.S. Is Criticized In 2003, animal and elephant welfare groups opposed a plan to move 11 elephants from this group in Swaziland to the United States.Credit...Zoological Society of San Diego Feb. 2, 2016 More than a dozen elephants from southern Africa are being moved to American zoos, a plan that critics say will imperil the animals. The United States Fish and Wildlife Service last month approved the transfer of the 18 African elephants from Swaz...

. The fate of one of Africa’s most valuable ecosystems may depend on results from wells being drilled deep into the bedrock beneath the Kalahari of northern Namibia and Botswana in the hunt for a petroleum reservoir. If the search by Canadian oil and gas company ReconAfrica is successful, the region could be irrevocably transmogrified by networks of access roads, truck traffic and heavy machinery, pipelines, drill rigs and hundreds of oil and gas production wells. A group of yellow-billed sto...

eogden@minotdailynews.com Eloise Ogden/MDN Biography signs have been placed at Roosevelt Park Zoo in Minot to tell visitors specific details about zoo inhabitants, like this one about the red pandas. A biography sign is posted on the outside of the habitat for Fred and George, the red pandas at Minot’s Roosevelt Park Zoo. The sign give specific information about Fred and George such as each ones birthday, where born (Birmingham Zoo), personality traits and some of their favorite foods. For ed...

. A new report, Plundered – South Africa’s cold-blooded international reptile trade, explores loopholes in the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) regulations and finds that an ineffective local permitting system is allowing the illegal international trade of South Africa’s reptiles.  While still awaiting the Department of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries’ (DEFF’s) investigation into their previous report, Breaking Point, the EMS Foundation and Ban Anim...