In Volume 9, nr. 3:

Tina the elephant
The following story could be the script for a tearjerking family movie: a poor aging, ailing animal with a chronic disease. Good, bad and ugly people, the victory of the good and a happy ending. Instead it is reality that shows the need of animal lovers in general, and the need of friends of elephants in particular.

Different species: forest elephants and West African elephant
Depending on official estimates there are about 4 to 500.000 elephants living in Africa at the moment. The majority, about 250 to 350.000 of them, are savannah elephants in Eastern and Southern Africa. In the Central African rain forest there lives another species, the forest elephant. Recent studies have made clear that there is so much difference between them and the savannah elephant ÿ genetically as well as in stature and behaviour, that they really are another species. They now have their own scientific name: Loxodonta africana cyclotis (the savannah elephant is Loxodonta africana africana).

Elephants Haven
An hour's ride by car from Chaing Mai in North Thailand lies the Elephants Haven. Surrounded by mountains, a plentiful and overgrown is where 12 elephants live. As freely as any elephants in Thailand can, since pineapple plantations have been planted at the foot of the mountains and prevent the elephants from wandering freely around at night-time, because when the elephants eat the pineapples, which they love, they unintentionally create a hefty dent in the plantation profits.