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A Kenya Wildlife Service warder inspects a section of elephant tusks. Police in Kenya have seized two tonnes of ivory worth $1.15 million, the biggest haul on record in the East African country.

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"This is a big catch, the biggest ever single seizure of ivory at the port of Mombasa," said Kiberenge Seroney, the port's police officer in charge of criminal investigations.

"We fail to understand where one gathers the courage to park such enormous quantities of ivory, hoping that they can slip through our security systems."

Poaching is a growing problem for sub-Saharan African countries reliant on rich wildlife in their game reserves to draw foreign tourists.  Full story

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A worker arranges elephant tusks recovered from a container on transit, at the Kenyan port city of Mombasa on Jan15.

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Two year old Kilaguni is featured in the IMAX® film Born to be Wild 3D. The little elephant was rescued after his mother was killed by poachers and he was badly bitten by hyenas. Born to be Wild 3D is showing at London's BFI IMAX and the Science Museum IMAX.

Dame Daphne Sheldrick has been raising and rehabilitating orphaned elephants for more than 25 years. Her charity, the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, works to preserve the wild animals of Tsavo National Park, Kenya's largest wildlife refuge. 

NBC News interviewed Dame Daphne to mark the release of a new IMAX film about the elephants:

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Two wild elephants went on a three-hour rampage in the southern Indian city of Mysore, trampling one person to death and causing widespread panic, local officials told AFP.

State forest department officials said the young jumbos, which were later tranquilized and captured, came from a forest about 22 miles away with two others, who remain at large on the outskirts of the city.

Every year hundreds of people across India die when wild animals wander into cities as their natural habitats shrink and they have to range farther for food, according to AP.

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A wild Indian elephant, with a tranquliser dart in its side, brushes past a car as it causes panic on a street in Mysore, India on June 8.

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An elephant, with a tranquiliser dart in its side, is watched by bystanders, one armed, as it walks in a compound in Mysore on June 8.

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A wild elephant attacks a man during a rampage in Mysore on June 8. The man was killed.

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An Indian elephant is linked by a heavy rope to others as it is led from the scene of its capture in Mysore on June 8.

Faced with the difficult task of capturing a wild elephant in order to move it to a place of sanctuary, staff from Malaysia's Department of Wildlife and National Parks deployed their secret weapon: a pair of tame elephants named 'Timur' and 'Cek Mek.'

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A tame elephant named 'Cek Mek' is driven through a village near Rompin, Malaysia on May 14. Cek Mek was used to accompany a newly captured wild elephant during its relocation from a forest in Kota Tinggi to the Kuala Gandah Elephant Sanctuary in Pahang.

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A wild elephant is tranquilized as it is captured in a forest in Kota Tinggi on May 14.

Trained elephants are used to accompany captured wild elephants during the relocation process from their natural habitat, which can be threatened by the close proximity of human settlements. The presence of other elephants calms the frightened elephant, making it less likely to retaliate or attack the movers.

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Cek Mek, right, makes the first contact with a newly captured wild elephant at a forest in Kota Tinggi on May 14.

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A newly captured wild elephant is led out of a forest by trained elephants in Kota Tinggi on May 14.

Photographer Bazuki Muhammad accompanied the Elephant Management Unit as they transported the wild elephant from a forest in Kota Tinggi to the Kuala Gandah Elephant Sanctuary in Pahang.

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Tame elephants Cek Mek, left, and Timur, right, play with a newly captured wild elephant at a forest in Kota Tinggi on May 14.

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A newly captured wild elephant waits to be unloaded from a truck as it arrives at the Kuala Gandah Elephant Sanctuary outside Kuala Lumpur during the early hours of May 15, after a 9 hour journey.

According to Reuters, the department has relocated at least 600 wild elephants since 1974. Read more about the process at the Kuala Gandah sanctuary's website.

See below for video of these two male calves.

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Newborn elephant babies Shavu and Uli, from left, enjoy their first get together at the zoo in Wuppertal, Germany, Jan. 24. Uli was born Sunday a week ago, and Shavu arrived last Thursday at the zoo. Both little African elephants share the same father Tusker, who comes from South Africa.