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How to use the word Elephants in a Sentence? Page #3

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The international community has become aware that the killing of elephants can only be stopped by putting an end to such trading.

Lawmaker Elizabeth Quat

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

My trade will go extinct before elephants go extinct.

Daniel Chan

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

We're looking at aerodynamics, how changing the shape of the stadium affects the dust, heat and wind inside, qatar wants venues that can be used all year. They don't want white elephants.

Saud Ghani

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Qatar wants venues that can be used all year. They don't want white elephants.

Saud Ghani

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

I am sure these projections that elephants could vanish at the Selous by 2022 are based on past events, not the current situation on the ground, we haven't completely curbed poaching -- we need to step up our efforts. But elephant populations are actually rising and stabilizing in some parts of the country, although poaching has not been completely eradicated.

Gaudence Milanzi

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Kenya is making a statement that for us ivory is worthless unless it is on our elephants.

President Uhuru Kenyatta

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Elephants actually do stand on their heads in the wild, I've seen it.

Stephen Payne

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Elephants trampling on tourists and tourists having their legs cut off by speed boats, this won't happen any more.

Surachet Hakphan

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

If current trends continue, the last wild African elephants and rhinos will be killed before my daughter Charlotte reaches her 25th birthday, the question is: can we be bothered to do our bit? By signing this declaration, you, the leaders of some of the most important transportation companies and agencies on earth are answering with an emphatic, 'yes'.

Donald Trump

Found on CNN
8 years ago

There are those who would rather see elephants die than live in accredited zoos. We strongly disagree with that position.

Gregg Hudson

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We are making a lifetime commitment to these elephants and their offspring and are providing a safe home for them.

Dennis Pate

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Our zoos are committed to the safe future of these elephants.

Gregg Hudson

Found on CNN
8 years ago

If an elephant is coming into musth, it should have been relaxing somewhere in the forest as they can become very aggressive, it's symptomatic of the situation we have with elephants in inappropriate places. If you have lots of males you need lots of space.

John Roberts

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We have 50 rangers waiting to be deployed but they are held up waiting for official approval and firearms from the government, mali is standing by while the elephants are being slaughtered ... If we continue at this rate, they will all be gone in three years.

Susan Canney

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

If we didn't do it, the elephants would go extinct in North America, likely in 25 years or less.

Kenneth Feld

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

If we didn’t do it, the elephants would go extinct in North America, likely in 25 years or less.

Kenneth Feld

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The elephant species is in the hands of the Chinese President, once the President decides to close down the legal market of ivory and elephant in China, the poaching of elephants will end.

Andrea Costa

Found on CNN
8 years ago

By all logical reasoning, elephants should be developing a tremendous amount of cancer, and in fact, should be extinct by now due to such a high risk for cancer, we think that making more p53 is nature's way of keeping this species alive.

Joshua Schiffman

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It's as if the elephants said, 'It's so important that we don't get cancer, we're going to kill this cell and start over fresh,' if you kill the damaged cell, it's gone, and it can't turn into cancer. This may be more effective of an approach to cancer prevention than trying to stop a mutated cell from dividing and not being able to completely repair itself.

Joshua Schiffman

Found on CNN
8 years ago

They've basically ruined the collective antique trade, is this really something that will stop poor African people from killing elephants?

Scott Defrin

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Gabon is almost like a beacon in the middle of all those countries that have lost hundreds of thousands of elephants over the last 25 years.

Michael Fay

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I doubt whether my great-grandchildren will actually be able to see wild elephants living a normal life, they are going very rapidly, one every 15 minutes.

Daphne Sheldrick

Found on CNN
8 years ago

When I went for my interview, they said, 'Go put on a uniform and the elephants will interview you,' that's when I really understood that elephants can read humans' hearts.

Benjamin Kyalo

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Why are the Americans more concerned than us? we never hear them speak out when villagers are killed by lions and elephants in Hwange.

Joseph Mabuwa

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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