1.   The authorities had earlier decided to kill other elephants as part of a major culling programme provoked by the drought.

2.   And why are the lions more savage than the white traders killing elephants to get rich on their ivory?

3.   Besides poaching, elephants are killed in conflicts with farmers, not only here but all over the continent.

4.   This elephant was killed less than two miles inside Tanzania, an area that under an informal agreement with Kenya has long been considered off-limits for hunting.

5.   We have to kill a few elephants that become a danger to our lives.

6.   When the urine sample was tested, it was found to contain enough whiskey to kill an elephant.

7.   Police shot and killed an elephant after it went berserk and trampled to death its owner in the Indian capital of New Delhi, news reports said Monday.

8.   Poachers have killed male elephants to export their tusks, reducing the number necessary to reproduce and sustain their numbers.

9.   Poachers killed five elephants and hacked off their tucks in Kenya last month, renewing fears that poaching will surge as a worldwide ban on ivory trading is eased.

10.   Poachers killed the elephants for their ivory, treasured from the time of pharaohs.