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News Archives for 1998

A reading room for relevant newspaper and magazine articles.

In case you're wondering: these news items are not always discovered in chronological order, but are still made available if the news is particularly important.

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Wildlife and conservation

  • Discord over seal-lovers' phone calls December 28, 1998

  • Elephant executed in India December 28, 1998

  • KLM airline will not transport Tuli Elephants December 24, 1998

  • Maternity leave causes jumbo work shortage December 18, 1998

  • Jumbos to stay on Brits farm December 11, 1998

  • South Africa signs international ocean charter December 10, 1998

  • Jumbos to stay on Brits farm December 11, 1998

  • Elephants To Stay Put For Now December 10, 1998

  • NSPCA cannot remove elephants December 10, 1998

  • Now Game Farms Don't Want Tuli Elephants December 9, 1998

  • Germany stops import of African babies December 9, 1998

  • Germany stops import of baby elephants from Africa December 9, 1998

  • Homes for 30 court-case elephants hit snags December 9, 1998

  • Seven Tuli Elephants Can Be Sent To European Zoos December 8, 1998

  • Ottawa woman dressed as elephant protested fate of baby pachyderms December 8, 1998

  • Warning on beached seal pups December 7, 1998

  • Baby Elephant Case Goes Back to Court Again December 7, 1998

  • Release of elephants hits snags December 7, 1998

  • Hanekom urged to mediate in elephant matter December 7, 1998

  • Hanekom urged to intervene in Tuli elephant matter December 6, 1998

  • Baby elephants go into foster care December 3, 1998

  • Good Friday as 'slave trade' in jumbos ends December 3, 1998

  • SA has key role in world move to save seabirds December 2, 1998

  • Judge Rules in Favour of Elephants December 2, 1998

  • Sunfishes swim into Aquarium spotlight November 30, 1998

  • Elephant trainer faces new cruelty charges November 25, 1998

  • Rare albatross no longer on the menu November, 1998

  • SA imports six Cape buffaloes November 23, 1998

  • The good, the green and the downright silly November 13, 1998

  • Michael Jackson bought Ghiazza's elephants November 13, 1998

  • Botswana: Baby elephant controversy November 9, 1998

  • Kruger Park lions face TB massacre October 22, 1998

  • Humane Society joins in elephant fight October 21, 1998

  • Animal experts call for halt to elephant camp October 21, 1998

  • Court battle looms over shark cage-diving October 24/25, 1998

  • Grazing agreement may put an end to hippo slaughter at Rondevlei October 17/18, 1998

  • Split over fate of jumbo October 17, 1998

  • Stress kills Bobby the baboon October 15, 1998

  • Auctioned animals rot in pens September 27, 1998

  • Karoo welcomes Quagga back from the dead September 27, 1998

  • Kruger Park lions dying like flies September 27, 1998

  • Elephant kidnapper faces charges September 18, 1998

  • Prevention is better than the cure September 17, 1998

  • Elephant kills cameraman September 14, 1998

  • Keiko will be free at last! September 10, 1998

  • Monkey business for baboons July 9, 1998

  • Baboon battalion hits Constantia July 4/5, 1998

  • Anti-hunt laws withdrawn July 4, 1998

  • Kruger rangers gain the upper hand in cat-and-mouse game - for now July 4/5, 1998

  • It's time to bring out the big guns in the war against poachers July 4/5, 1998

  • Signs of battle as mighty tusker dies July, 1998

  • Baboons killed as residents fight invasion June 29, 1998

  • Big five to lure tourists to Cape Reserve 1998

  • Penguin rescue mission in battle for chicks' lives May 29, 1998

  • Seal rescue launched as oil spreads to Waterfront May 27 1998

  • Proposal to keep check on whaling May 20, 1998

  • Support for change in conservation May 20, 1998

  • Muti shop tortoises spirited to safety May 20, 1998

  • The penguin's nanny service April 22, 1998

  • Rhino Romeo finds out what true love is about April 21, 1998

  • Stand aside, Dr Dolittle - Dr Feelgood is dishing out Prozac and Valium to zoo animals April 19, 1998

  • Penguins take a bashing as authorities haggle March 30, 1998

  • Letters regarding the penguin situation March 27/30, 1998

  • Ape dies in zoo romp March 25, 1998

  • A jumbo's welcome for giant orphans March 25, 1998

  • Worldwide concern over declining tiger population March 13, 1998

  • Worldwide concern over declining tiger population March 13, 1998

  • Role models called in to curb jumbos March 12, 1998

  • 'Ivory bonfire' mooted to check poaching March 11, 1998

  • TB-free buffalo to be bred and fed into SA's nature reserves March 3, 1998

  • Wild dogs give rabies-hit reserve a fresh beginning March 3, 1998

  • Africa's apes in crisis February 27, 1998

  • New fishing method will saves birds' lives February 25, 1998

  • End of the line for fish February 11, 1998

  • Stricken penguin gets prosthetic beak February 8, 1998

  • Technology to the rescue of the Kruger jumbos January 20, 1998

  • Gray Wolf threatened by Federal Court January 19-25, 1998

  • Wild cheetah face captivity or death January 19, 1998

  • More Parks Land January 9, 1998

  • Battle to save tiger January 6, 1998

  • Rising human numbers add up to death sentence for India's tigers January 6, 1998

  • Mistaken fear kills 'fragile' shark January 6, 1998

  • NZ's kiwi bird headed for extinction January 2, 1998

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