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Elephants and their jockeys have taken part in an annual elephant race in Kathmandu.

They might be giants, but African elephants are now running in fear from one of the continent’s smaller animals—honey bees, enlisted in the fight against crop-raiding pachyderms.

Making paper may seem to be an unlikely wildlife conservation tactic, but Mr. Ellie Pooh is doing just that. This paper is made from orphanage and wild elephants’ poop. In Sri Lankan elephant/human conflict areas, where people kill elephants mostly because of their damage to agriculture; this recycled paper company is bringing jobs to locals and compensation to farmers, promoting a new appreciation and incentive for elephant conservation.

On 11 October, 93.9 kg of elephant ivory was confiscated in Zambia. Again, on 18 October, 22 tusks were seized in Zimbabwe. On 12 October, a man in British Columbia was prosecuted for illegally importing 30,000 pieces of African elephant ivory. It would be difficult to tell from recent events that just a few months ago a decision was made to implement a “resting period” with no new ivory trade proposals permitted for a period of nine years (after stockpile sales go through).

Contrary to many expectations, the largest animal on Earth was not a dinosaur. The largest known to man was more than half the size of a blue whale. Here are the superlatives in terms of size for the wild.

WWF has launched its Autumn range of green goods.