*Dear Recipients: Please find Resources for June 2022 below *
GENERAL
Australia: New gold and silver coins in popular “Australia Zoo” series
features African and Sumatran elephants
Michael Alexander, Coin Update
June 15, 2022
https://news.coinupdate.com/australia-new-gold-and-silver-coins-in-popular-australia-zoo-series-features-african-and-sumatran-elephants/
BWY canine in fight against tiger, pangolin and ivory trade
The Western Telegraph
June 19, 2022
https://www.westerntelegraph.co.uk/news/20220567.bwy-canine-fight-tiger-pangolin-ivory-trade/
Formal documentation not mandatory for adoption of privately owned
elephants, commercial transactions prohibited: Karnataka High Court
Mustafa Plumber, Live Law
June 13, 2022
https://www.livelaw.in/news-updates/karnataka-high-court-elephants-transfer-welfare-wildlife-protection-act-201455
From AIs to an unhappy elephant, the legal question of who is a person is
approaching a reckoning
The Conversation
June 21, 2022
https://theconversation.com/from-ais-to-an-unhappy-elephant-the-legal-question-of-who-is-a-person-is-approaching-a-reckoning-185268
Prince George held cake sale to raise money for endangered wildlife
Saman Javed, The Independent
June 21, 2022
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/royal-family/prince-george-cake-lockdown-donation-b2105842.html
The jungle environmentalist saving elephants in Thailand (w/video)
Euro news
June 27, 2022
https://www.euronews.com/culture/2022/06/27/the-jungle-environmentalist-saving-elephants-in-thailand
This climate guru is a celebrity in the US. In India, he’s accused of
destroying a forest
Pallavi Pundir, Vice
June 23, 2022
https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgy8bw/climate-yoga-celebrity-sadhguru-india-will-smith-trevor-noah
Uganda: Totalenergies launches biodiversity conservation program for its
Tilenga Oil project
Kenneth Kazibwe, Nile Post / All Africa
June 8, 2022
https://allafrica.com/stories/202206090434.html
Wildlife team moves 13 elephants that threatened village (Mozambique)
Mary Jo DiLonardo, Treehugger
June 22, 2022
https://www.treehugger.com/wildlife-team-moves-elephants-threatened-village-5442843
World female ranger week: 5 women leading the way in conservation
Jessica Reid, Wanderlust
June 29, 2022
https://www.wanderlust.co.uk/content/world-female-ranger-week/
ARCHAEOLOGY A mystery that took 13,200 years to crack
Peter Brannen, The Atlantic June 22, 2022
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2022/06/mastodon-mammoth-extinction-climate-change/661351/
Ancient jumbo lived 10,000 years more than thought: Researchers from Pune
based college (India)
The Times of India
June 15, 2022
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/ancient-jumbo-lived-10000-years-more-than-thought-researchers-from-pune-college/articleshow/92219214.cms
FILM & VIDEO / DOCUMENTARIES / AUDIO / PHOTO RELATED Ageing elephant with
giant tusks each weighing 100 lb covers itself with dust to cool off
(Kenya) (photos)
Daniel Hammond, The Sun
June 27, 2022
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/19016872/elephant-giant-tusks/
Elephant bone in room (podcast & 7-minute video)
Mirage News
June 22, 2022
https://www.miragenews.com/elephant-bone-in-room-805479/
Watch: Remembering Bhogeshwara, the elephant with the longest tusks in
Asia, who died at 58 (tweets w/video)
Scroll In
June 13, 2022
https://scroll.in/video/1026082/watch-remembering-bhogeshwara-the-elephant-with-the-longest-tusks-in-asia-who-died-at-58
Watch / This radio host turned conservationist is amplifying protection
for Kenya’s rangers
Beautiful News SA (w/video)
June 28, 2022
https://www.sowetanlive.co.za/sebenza-live/2022-06-28-watch--this-radio-host-turned-conservationist-is-amplifying-protection-for-kenyas-rangers/
ART / MUSEUM / BOOKS
Elephants, camps and cooking: The latest kids’ books by Canberra authors
Stephanie Owen Reeder, The Camden Courier
June 10, 2022
https://www.camdencourier.com.au/story/7768464/made-for-kids-in-the-capital/?cs=2506
SAS Who Dares Wins star says ivory poachers have started a secret ‘war’ in
Africa
Michael Moran, The Daily Star
June 19, 2022
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/sas-who-dares-wins-star-27219404
FASHION Tusk African conservation charity launches new Sainsbury’s
children's clothing range
Oxford Mail
June 18, 2022
https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/national/uk-today/20220018.tusk-african-conservation-charity-launches-new-sainsburys-childrens-clothing-range/