Press coverage of the Elephants leaving Mumbai

This article to contradict the crazed female in heat story and tells a far sadder tale - Lakshmi the elephant, her back broken by a driver, had to be put down in 2006:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/24/world/asia/24iht-elephant.2915662.html


Coverage of the ban:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/city-life-too-cruel-for-mumbais-elephants-459651.html

http://www.nowpublic.com/india_bans_elephants_mumbai

http://incobra.wordpress.com/2007/08/09/ban-of-elephants-in-mumbai/

http://www.petaindia.com/feat/f-mumbai-victory.asp


As of Dec. 2009, some elephants remain after ban:

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/two-years-after-ban-elephants-continue-to-beg-on-city-roads/552153/0

Pictures of elephants in Mumbai to follow in the next post.