World Wildlife Fund Flying Squad Asian Elephant Conservation Project - Sumatra



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I do not own the copyright to this TV program. It was originally broadcast on ABC News Nightline on December 11, 2007. Here is part of the script from the show. Elephants Patrol Border Between Man and Beast SUMATRA, Indonesia, Dec. 11, 2007 By NICK WATT NICK WATT Correspondent It's called the Flying Squad: Four elephants and a baby named Nella. Its mission? To patrol the increasingly contentious boundary between man and wild elephants on the edge of the Tesso Nilo National Park in Sumatra, Indonesia. "An elephant will smash a motorcycle in one fell swoop. But [a] bull elephant going head-to-head with another bull elephant, that's a different story," explains Adam Tomasek, from the World Wildlife Fund. "In a way, they are the first responders." When they meet a wild elephant that's threatening a village and they can't scare it away, the male elephants in the Flying Squad have to stand, lock tusks and fight, trying to drive the wild elephants away from crops before people take action. "Without a Flying Squad, lots of times the only option is to set out traps, to set out poison," said Tomasek. The park was once home to 1,600 wild elephants. Now there are only 200 left, and the Flying Squad is trying to save them. READ ENTIRE SCRIPT at http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/story?id=3984672

Published by: Rick LoBello Published at: 10 years ago Category: غیر انتفایی