It’s World Elephant Day!
World Elephant Day was launched on the 12th August 2012 to raise awareness of the plight of elephants across the world. Both African and Asian elephants are facing severe threats ranging from poaching (primarily for the illegal ivory trade), to loss of their natural habitat. Conflict between the animals and their human neighbours is also a major issue, not to mention the ill-treatment they can receive when in captivity.
I am certainly no expert in these matters, but having visited the Elephant Conservation Centre in Laos earlier this year, I learnt a bit about the plight of the endangered Asian elephant. They are very much under threat of extinction, with only approximately 400 left in the wild in Laos itself. It was inspiring to see the great work that the ECC do with rescued elephants in Laos and I hope that by visiting I made a (very!) small contribution to that effort. They are just one of many great organisations across the world who are doing what they can to help protect and preserve these magnificent creatures.
World Elephant Day is a an opportunity to celebrate nature’s giants, but most importantly to learn about the issues they face across Africa and Asia and the rest of the world.
If you are interested, a lot more info can be found on the World Elephant Day website. Please do check it out and learn what you can do to help their plight and Be Elephant Ethical when choosing to see elephants either in sanctuaries or in the wild!
How can we possibly let these beautiful animals disappear?
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Great post!
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It’s really sad Elephants are wonderful mammal on the planet!! You are doing great job by spreading awareness through your post!! 💛
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It is very sad, but it’s also heartening to know that there are lot of people and organisations doing what they can to save them. Thank you for reading! I hope I can help a little bit by spreading the word 🙂
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Love this post! Thank you! When we were in Phuket, it was difficult to see how much elephants are exploited to make money. Especially the babies who are chained for people to pet. It was difficult to find an ethical location to visit elephants – but we did find one location near the Big Budda where our guide – his family – worked and trained elephants for many generations. We hoped his story was true……
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Thank you! It’s so sad when you see such things isn’t it and it can be so hard to know if you are making the right choices. I guess my approach is to just try to educate myself as much as I can so I can hopefully be in a position to make informed and ethical decisions when choosing places to visit and products to buy. It’s still difficult though as it’s such a complex issue.
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