To start the day …. “August 12 …. World Elephant Day”!!

~~August 12, 2015~~ 

BECAUSE WITHOUT ELEPHANTS, WHAT KIND OF WORLD THIS WOULD BE

August 12 is World Elephant Day and brings people together to help conserve and protect elephants from the numerous threats they face.

The World Elephant Day mission is to spread awareness, share knowledge, and provide solutions for better care and management of both captive and wild elephants.

Elephants are now going extinct at a rate of one every 14 minutes.
Without mercy humans are destroying the elephants faster and faster.
Unequivocally the world must end the ivory trade.

Poaching, human-elephant conflict, habitat loss, exploitation and abuse are all underpinned by social, political, economic and environmental realities in the countries where elephants reside – in captivity or in the wild.

On August 12, 2012, the inaugural World Elephant Day was launched to bring attention to the urgent plight of Asian and African elephants. The elephant is loved, revered and respected by people and cultures around the world, yet we balance on the brink of seeing the last of this magnificent creature.

The escalation of poaching, habitat loss, human-elephant conflict and mistreatment in captivity are just some of the threats to both African and Asian elephants. Working towards better protection for wild elephants, improving enforcement policies to prevent the illegal poaching and trade of ivory, conserving elephant habitats, better treatment for captive elephants and, when appropriate, reintroducing captive elephants into natural, protected sanctuaries are the goals that numerous elephant conservation organizations are focusing on around the world.

World Elephant Day asks you to experience elephants in non-exploitive and sustainable environments where elephants can thrive under care and protection.

On World Elephant Day, August 12, express your concern, share your knowledge and support solutions for the better care of captive and wild elephants alike.

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We admire elephants in part because they demonstrate what we consider the finest human traits: empathy, self-awareness, and social intelligence. But the way we treat them puts on display the very worst of human behavior.”

Graydon Carter, Editor of Vanity Fair

Elephants are simply one more natural resource that is being caught up in human greed on the one hand and human need on the other.  We somehow need people to become reacquainted with nature or they can have no clue as to the inter-relatedness of cause and effect.”

Dr. Stephen Blake, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology

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~~World Elephant Day~~

~~Published on Aug 13, 2014~~

Its world Elephant day and the Nairobi elephant orphanage in Kenya has been celebrating by highlighting the plight of Africa’s elephants which are threatened by surging rates of illegal poaching.

Hundreds of Elephants have been massacred in the last couple of year across Sub-Saharan pushing the animals to the brink of extinction

~~Celebrate World Elephant Day 2015~~

~~Published on Aug 11, 2015~~

Every day at the DSWT is World Elephant Day. But today is a chance for us to celebrate the species together and let the world know why they need our protection. Watch as our Nursery Head Keeper, Edwin Lusichi takes us through a day in his life caring for orphaned baby elephants at our orphanage in Nairobi.

~~Umani Springs – Kibwezi Forest~~

~~Published on Aug 7, 2015~~

Umani Springs in the Kibwezi Forest – our third and most recent rehabilitation unit – nestled within a paradise where the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust has a concession from the Kenya Forest Service to manage and protect this unique and treasured ground water forest abutting the Chyulu Hills National Park.

Now home to ten of our orphaned elephants and numerous wild herds along with a multitude of other fauna and flora Umani Springs Lodge enables a privileged few a home from home within this extremely special ecosystem.

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World Elephant Day …. August 12, 2014!!

~~August 12, 2014~~ 

The world’s elephants need your help! 

On August 12, 2012, the inaugural World Elephant Day was launched to bring attention to the urgent plight of Asian and African elephants. The elephant is loved, revered and respected by people and cultures around the world, yet we balance on the brink of seeing the last of this magnificent creature.

The escalation of poaching, habitat loss, human-elephant conflict and mistreatment in captivity are just some of the threats to both African and Asian elephants. Working towards better protection for wild elephants, improving enforcement policies to prevent the illegal poaching and trade of ivory, conserving elephant habitats, better treatment for captive elephants and, when appropriate, reintroducing captive elephants into natural, protected sanctuaries are the goals that numerous elephant conservation organizations are focusing on around the world.

World Elephant Day asks you to experience elephants in non-exploitive and sustainable environments where elephants can thrive under care and protection. On World Elephant Day, August 12, express your concern, share your knowledge and support solutions for the better care of captive and wild elephants alike.

Let’s celebrate with facts about elephants that live around the world.

The first World Elephant Day was celebrated Aug. 12, 2012.

World Elephant Day was created to bring awareness to the plight of African and Asian elephants throughout the world.

Some of the threats elephants face are poachers, habitat loss and mistreatment in captivity.

Canadian filmmaker and elephant advocate Patricia Sims, and the Elephant Reintroduction Foundation in Thailand, founded the day.

They ask people to celebrate elephants in non-exploitive and sustainable environments.

According to the World Elephant Day Website, to get involved in the plight of the world’s elephant populations and take action, individuals and organizations can:

Support organizations that are working to: stop the illegal poaching and trade of elephant ivory and other wildlife products; protect wild elephant habitat; and provide sanctuaries and alternative habitats for domesticated elephants to live freely.

If you wish to experience elephants in their natural environment, choose eco-tourism operators who support local elephant conservation projects and who treat elephants with respect and dignity.

Support healthy, alternative, sustainable livelihoods for people who have traditionally relied on elephants, wild animals, and natural resources.

Support orphaned elephants by fostering one whose parents have been killed by poachers.

Learn about indigenous cultures that have traditionally lived in harmony with elephants;
Be an elephant-aware consumer. Never buy ivory or other wildlife products.

Support a U.S. national ban on the sale of ivory. Contact your representatives and write to your country’s leaders, supporting national and local legislation to ban the sale of ivory;
Do not support organizations that exploit or abuse elephants and other animals for entertainment and profit.

A June 2014 report by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species said 20 percent of Africa’s elephants may be killed in the next 10 years if poaching continues at current levels.

Others estimate all African elephants in the wild could be extinct by 2025.

Experts say fewer than 400,000 wild African elephants remain, the release continued.

Meanwhile, with less than 40,000 left in the world, Asian elephants have now been given “Endangered” status on the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List of threatened species.

Asian elephants have faced and will continue to face extensive loss of their natural habitats. Adults are killed for their ivory, meat and body parts, as young elephants are removed from their natural homes for use in the tourism industry.

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http://www.latinpost.com/articles/19055/20140812/world-elephant-day-2014-how-you-can-help-them.htm

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~~Meet The Elephants~~

World Elephants Day

~~Published on Jul 16, 2012~~

Have a look at how life is for elephants when they’re free in the forest. These are elephants who were once captive and now released back to the wild in Thailand by the Elephant Reintroduction Foundation. No mahouts, no chains, no tourists – just elephants roaming free in vast protected forest habitat. You can see their natural behaviours, social communication, mud-bathing, foraging and playing – elephants really being elephants.

It’s a pleasure to see them this way – just the way elephants ought to be.

We ALL are connected through NATURE!!

~~Wild Elephants gather inexplicably mourn death of Elephant Whisperer~~

~~Published on Sep 14, 2013~~

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For 12 hours, two herds of wild South African elephants slowly made their way through the Zululand bush until they reached the house of late author Lawrence Anthony, the conservationist who saved their lives.The formerly violent, rogue elephants, destined to be shot a few years ago as pests, were rescued and rehabilitated by Anthony, who had grown up in the bush and was known as the “Elephant Whisperer.”

For two days the herds loitered at Anthony’s rural compound on the vast Thula Thula game reserve in the South African KwaZulu — to say good-bye to the man they loved. But how did they know he had died? Known for his unique ability to calm traumatized elephants, Anthony had become a legend. He is the author of three books, Babylon Ark, detailing his efforts to rescue the animals at Baghdad Zoo during the Iraqi war, the forthcoming The Last Rhinos, and his bestselling The Elephant Whisperer.

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MONSANTO Protection Act …. not again!!!

A budget provision protecting GM seeds from litigation was extended for 3 months in an approved U.S. House of Representatives’ spending bill on Tuesday evening, August 12, 2013.

The Monsanto Protection Act budget rider shields biotech behemoths like Monsanto, Cargill and others from the threat of lawsuits and bars federal courts from intervening to force an end to the sale of a GMOs even if the genetically-engineered product causes damaging health effects.

TELL YOUR SENATORS TO GET RID OF IT: http://bit.ly/MonsantoProtectionAct

READ HERE: http://rt.com/usa/monsanto-protection-extended-house-741/

AND HERE: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/11/monsanto-protection-act-extension_n_3908249.html

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