Elephants Without Borders

Truck drivers stuck on a national highway on the Assam - Tripura border that has turned to slush are turning to desperate measures to get moving, including enlisting an elephant to try and push their trucks ahead, but without much success.

A ton of illegal ivory carved into decorative objects was destroyed in New York's Times Square today as US officials denounced poaching that kills thousands of elephants a year.

No sign of an elephant in all of two minutes, a tourist teased a guide at Botswana's Chobe National Park, home to tens of thousands of elephants. A minute later, their vehicle cleared a knot of shrubs and elephants loomed ahead beside the dusty road.

Truck drivers stuck on a national highway on the Assam - Tripura border that has turned to slush are turning to desperate measures to get moving, including enlisting an elephant to try and push their trucks ahead, but without much success.

A ton of illegal ivory carved into decorative objects was destroyed in New York's Times Square today as US officials denounced poaching that kills thousands of elephants a year.

No sign of an elephant in all of two minutes, a tourist teased a guide at Botswana's Chobe National Park, home to tens of thousands of elephants. A minute later, their vehicle cleared a knot of shrubs and elephants loomed ahead beside the dusty road.