To do its part, A Cambodian court "ordered four elephants seized by wildlife protection officials last year to be returned to the suspected smugglers from whom they were confiscated. . .." With this kind of attention to detail, I'd start worrying about a newly discovered Javan rhinoceros, long feared to be extinct in Vietnam, which was rediscovered in the country's southern jungles. Rare enough so that only a handful are probably left, which was why they were unknown, do they really stand a chance?
In South Africa, after "Days of intense negotiations between representatives of the World Wide Fund For Nature South Africa (WWF-SA) and Riccardo Ghiazza of African Game Services have culminated in an agreement for WWF-SA to buy the remaining nine Tuli elephants." ( Environment News Service (ENS)). Will this help other elephants in the famous Kruger National Wildlife Park where fatal anthrax has broken out. "Ranchers are owners of private game farms in the area are being urgently advised to vaccinate their animals at once," says ENS. Where the anthrax bacteria came from we don't know, but we do know that it is deadly and wipes out animals quickly.
As you know, human population is one of the big reasons we have so many environmental problems in the first place. Too many people encroaching on wildlife habitat in one way or another. According to the International Programs Center of the U.S. Census Bureau, the world has passed six billion people, although other sources say we haven't but will by 2000. ENS) Oh oh! More pressure on the environment and there is still so much we don't know. Like the fact that we just found out endangered loggerhead sea turtles migrate across the Pacific Ocean from Japan to Mexico and back to Japan, according to an Earthwatch-sponsored researcher.
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