<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/369598c6-2dba-4fa5-a4fa-df283a9002da/3E754E7B-E18B-4B57-81D6-44888472A8F2/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://english.vietnamnet.vn/tech/2009/06/853124/" href="http://english.vietnamnet.vn/tech/2009/06/853124/" style="font-size: 11px;">english.vietnamnet.vn</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://english.vietnamnet.vn/tech/2009/06/853124/"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD valign="top" align="left" class="tintop_title">Dak Lak: elephants hunted for hair</TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://english.vietnamnet.vn/tech/2009/06/853124/"><I><SPAN>VietNamNet</SPAN></I><I><SPAN> Bridge</SPAN></I><I><SPAN> – Believing that luck will come to people who wear elephant-tail-hair-made jewelry, domesticated and wild elephants in the Central Highlands provinces of Dak Lak, which is famous for elephant taming, are in danger.</SPAN></I></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://english.vietnamnet.vn/tech/2009/06/853124/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/english.vietnamnet.vn/img/F5D983FE-241B-466F-AB33-CAC314F330B5" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://english.vietnamnet.vn/tech/2009/06/853124/"><SPAN>People in Ea Sup district, Dak Lak on June 11 reported the body of a two-tonne male elephant which had been shot to death in the local forest. The elephant was missing its head, tail and buttocks. Local forest rangers said that the elephant was around 20 years old and it was shot to death around one week earlier.</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://english.vietnamnet.vn/tech/2009/06/853124/"><SPAN>An elephant-hair-made jewelry salesman in Don Village, Dak Lak, said an elephant tail hair is priced around 200,000 dong. An elephant tail has around 1000 hairs so it is worth around 200 million dong ($11,700). </SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://english.vietnamnet.vn/tech/2009/06/853124/">the value of a tail is equivalent to a pair of tusks</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://english.vietnamnet.vn/tech/2009/06/853124/"><SPAN>Hunters are not only hunting big male elephants for tusks but also female and baby elephants for tail hairs.</SPAN></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/3E754E7B-E18B-4B57-81D6-44888472A8F2/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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