World News 09-06-2005 who: Meru National Park senior warden Mark Jenkins what: Fits elephants with SIM cards so they can keep in touch with sponsors where: Kenya when: This week snippet: The endangered animals (about nine-tenths of Kenya`s elephants were slaughtered by poachers between 1973 and 1989) will wear "collars that send a text message telling wardens exactly where the elephants are every hour," says The Independent`s Meera Selva. "That information will soon be available over the internet, and accessible to people who choose to sponsor an animal or make a donation to charity." In other animal news, The Sun reckons Wiltshire police are hunting a "Catgarookey" - a creature roaming the streets of Salisbury at night which has been described by witnesses as "a cross between a cat, kangaroo and monkey"; and The Independent`s Michael McCarthy reports the good news that the campephilus principalis, commonly known as the ivory-billed woodpecker, is not, as previously thought, extinct, but is in fact "just very shy". [... more]

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