ABC World News on elephants - Sumatra's Lost Herd - 12/11/07

December 12, 2007

ABC World News has been focusing on the plight of Wild Animals being decimated by human destruction of their habitat. Last week the show aired a segment headed, "ABC News Gets a Rare Glimpse at Borneo's Orangutan Rehab Project." You can read the text and see photos at:http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=3969647 & page=1Tonight, Tuesday December 11, the show promo includes:"Sumatra's 'Lost Herd':We take you to a region of the world where coffee grown for Americans and others is destroying the habitat of one of Earth's most beloved creatures. Nick Watt reports from Sumatra on the demise of elephants, and the amazing efforts being taken to save them."(I thank Teresa D'Amico for making sure we saw this.)The website tells us the issue will be covered "tonight on 'World News' at 6:30 p.m. and 'Nightline' at 11:35 p.m.

ET"ABC's web page covering the story is headed, "Elephants Patrol Border Between Man and BeastA Novel Technique to Save Elephants Struggling to Survive in a Shrinking Wilderness."You'll find it athttp://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/story?id=3984672 & page=1It includes sobering information, such as:"Once they numbered sixty, now just four elephants struggle to survive in a rapidly shrinking wilderness, a wilderness being lost to coffee. The national park is supposed to be protected forest, but a lot of it has been burned and cleared to grow 'Robusta' coffee beans. These beans are commonly used in Europe and North America to make instant coffee. Nestle, which makes Nescafe, buys coffee from the region..."ABC takes note of which stories are most viewed, emailed, and commented on, so please at least check it out. You can comment from the links on the page, or submit comments directly to the producers of ABC World News with Charles

Gibson at:http://tinyurl.com/2nowvhor Nightline at:http://abcnews.go.com/Site/page?id=3428117It is vital that news media see that animal coverage is important to viewers, so please take a moment to express appreciation, which will encourage more animal coverage. Yours and the animals',Karen Dawn(DawnWatch is an animal advocacy media watch that looks at animal issues in the media and facilitates one-click responses to the relevant media outlets. You can learn more about it, and sign up for alerts at http://www.DawnWatch.com. You may forward or reprint DawnWatch alerts if you do so unedited -- leave DawnWatch in the title and include this parenthesized tag line. If somebody forwards DawnWatch alerts to you, which you enjoy, please help the list grow by signing up. It is free.)To discontinue DawnWatch alerts go to http://www.DawnWatch.com/nothanks.php-------You are

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