鈥淚 Need A Liver 鈥� Please Help Save My Life!鈥�
A billboard in Houston, Texas, displays Todd Krampitz鈥榮 plea for a donor organ (CNN, 12 August)
鈥淲e must find out ways and means to ensure the safe return of the elephants.鈥�
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Mukul Sangma, forest minister of Meghalaya state in north-east India, urges officials not to kill 100 rampaging elephants that have killed 13 people in neighbouring Bangladesh (CNN, 16 August)
鈥淚t鈥檚 too late for me, but for the sake of the world, forget profits, forget the black gold and sign Kyoto before it鈥檚 too late for you.鈥�
Someone signing themselves 鈥淢鈥� begs for political action after losing his or her house in flash floods in south-west England (BBC News online, 17 August)
鈥淎nyone who thinks we can replace nuclear power stations with renewables is talking bollocks.鈥�
Rod Smith, head of mechanical engineering at Imperial College London (The Observer, London, 15 August)
鈥淐riminals realise that electrical goods are not worth touching but rare species of animals have real value.鈥�
John Hayward, who runs a register of stolen animals in the UK, on the theft of 15 monkeys from a Scottish zoo (The Times, London, 13 August)
鈥淲e have already moved badgers from two monuments just north of Stonehenge.鈥�
Ian Barnes, one of four archaeologists employed by the UK Ministry of Defence, on plans to relocate badgers that have been burrowing into ancient burial mounds (Reuters, 14 August)