‘The Elephant Whisperers’ dramatizes the emotional bond between an orphaned elephant, Raghu, and the couple who care for him.
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A focus on financial compensation for subjects of ‘The Elephant Whisperers’ overshadowed the need to examine storytelling conventions and creative practices in contemporary documentary filmmaking.
Mammoths went extinct tens of thousands of years ago, but trade in their ivory is threatening their living elephant cousins.
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Melting Siberian permafrost is exposing long-dead mammoths, creating a new trade in mammoth ivory.
African elephant.
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As the ultimate custodians, it is urgent that African countries with elephants take
ownership of the processes at CITES.
Elephants in the Kwedi Area of the Okavango Delta, Botswana.
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In light of Botswana’s decision to allow trophy hunting again, new evidence suggests elephant poaching has been on the rise.
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Poaching of African elephants has fallen, but the species is still at risk. Law enforcement and ivory bans help, but tackling poverty is key to stopping poaching at the source.
Splashing in the Zambezi River at Botswana’s Chobe National Park.
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Lifting the trophy hunting moratorium in Botswana is more about politics and less about elephant conservation.
Elephants express many extra genes derived from the critical tumour suppressor gene TP53.
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Elephants naturally avoid cancer after 55 million years of evolution. Scientists are studying if they can extract lessons that could help people.