An elephant that lost one of its front legs after stepping on a landmine, as been fitted with a new prosthetic leg at a elephant hospital in Thailand.
Increasingly authorities are using forensic methods to track and trace the origins of seized ivory, providing the means to tackle enforcement problems in the country where the animal was killed, rather than just the point where the attempt was made to smuggle it out of the continent.
African ivory poachers have slaughtered 68 elephants in two month using helicopters and chainsaws in a national park in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Satao, believed to be one of the largest elephants in world, has been killed for by poachers to fuel the ivory trade.
A new elephant park has been opened to visitors at a Swiss zoo, which includes an elephant-sized aquarium.