Elephant Archive

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    Jumbo’s retirement - by frog



    Many conservationists feel there is something viscerally wrong with animal circuses.  Why do they call all their elephants ‘Jumbo’ for instance?  On the other hand people also allege that parliament is like a circus – with question time akin to a public viewing of feeding time.  There are certainly the occasional politicians a bit like [...] read more
    May 11, 2008 2:34 pm - 2 Comments
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    The climate change elephant - by frog



    The crew on the Rainbow Warrior got 2003′s cartoonist of the year, Malcolm Evans, down to Wellington’s Queens Wharf yesterday afternoon to paint an entire billboard. I had been going to show you a photo of his creation, but Greenpeace has gone one step better and provided a video: read more
    April 4, 2008 1:10 pm - 17 Comments