"With a weeks worth of preparations and 2 days spent searching the jungle we were able to rescue Kabu the elephant. It was a 24 hour round trip to bring Kabu from Tak province in West Thailand to Elephant Nature Park, Chiang Mai. Now Kabu has a fresh start where she will no longer be abused. We and volunteers are very proud of this rescued elephant and honored to provide her with a new life."
THE GLOBAL PLIGHT OF NON-HUMAN BEINGS AND WHAT WE CAN DO TO MAKE THE EARTH A BETTER PLACE FOR THEM BY CHANGING OUR BEHAVIOR.
FUN VIDEO: ELEPHANTS IN THE RAIN!
"Elephants star in this music video "Have You Ever Seen the Rain" filmed at Save Elephant Foundation's Elephant Nature Park in Chiang Mai, Thailand. All elephants featured in this film have lives free of work and enjoy just being elephants. For more information on the foundation and the park, please visit."
VIDEO: BABY ELEPHANT ESCORTS MAN TO A HERD OF BULL ELEPHANTS
Transcript by Care2 and Video by National Geographic
Investigative journalist Bryan Christy is working hard to expose the ivory trade and raise awareness about the plight of Africa’s elephants who are being slaughtered at a staggering rate for their ivory. It’s almost incomprehensible that these iconic animals could disappear from the landscape forever within our lifetime if drastic action isn’t taken to stop poachers.
Occasionally we get reminders about the urgency of this issue when we hear stories about the intelligence and socially complex nature of elephants, and get glimpses into their lives in the wild. This week National Geographic shared a short clip from its documentary series Explorer: Warlords of Ivory showing Christy on a trip to Kenya where he visited orphans at the Ithumba Release Camp in Kenya’s Tsavo East National Park. This is where orphans who are cared for by the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust begin their reintegration into the wild.
There, these orphans escort him to meet a herd of wild elephants who he admits can be extremely dangerous, adding that there’s a good chance he’d be seriously injured if he approached them on his own. With the baby elephants as his chaperones, however, he says he feels safe, adding, “They are protecting me, whether they know it or not.”
Christy said the experience “reestablishes my belief that these animals live in a society we barely understand. And I don’t have any greater right or lesser right to be on this planet, to have my community than these elephants do.” Unfortunately, not everyone sees elephants, or our place in the world, this way and poachers continue to threaten the future survival of these amazing animals. We continue to hear stories about the deaths of well-known and beloved individuals, entire families and, possibly most heartbreaking, more stories about orphans whose world’s are tragically changed forever by human greed.
Christy, meanwhile, is trying to crack the ivory trade. Recently he embarked on an effort to expose the criminals involved by tracking the exact route ivory is taking through Africa to its end destination by getting fake tusks embedded with a tracker into the market. His work will be featured as the cover story in the September issue of National Geographic. For more info about Christy’s work, check out Explorer: Warlords of Ivory. To learn more about how to help orphaned elephants and stop the ivory trade check out the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust and iworry.org.
Investigative journalist Bryan Christy is working hard to expose the ivory trade and raise awareness about the plight of Africa’s elephants who are being slaughtered at a staggering rate for their ivory. It’s almost incomprehensible that these iconic animals could disappear from the landscape forever within our lifetime if drastic action isn’t taken to stop poachers.
Occasionally we get reminders about the urgency of this issue when we hear stories about the intelligence and socially complex nature of elephants, and get glimpses into their lives in the wild. This week National Geographic shared a short clip from its documentary series Explorer: Warlords of Ivory showing Christy on a trip to Kenya where he visited orphans at the Ithumba Release Camp in Kenya’s Tsavo East National Park. This is where orphans who are cared for by the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust begin their reintegration into the wild.
There, these orphans escort him to meet a herd of wild elephants who he admits can be extremely dangerous, adding that there’s a good chance he’d be seriously injured if he approached them on his own. With the baby elephants as his chaperones, however, he says he feels safe, adding, “They are protecting me, whether they know it or not.”
Christy said the experience “reestablishes my belief that these animals live in a society we barely understand. And I don’t have any greater right or lesser right to be on this planet, to have my community than these elephants do.” Unfortunately, not everyone sees elephants, or our place in the world, this way and poachers continue to threaten the future survival of these amazing animals. We continue to hear stories about the deaths of well-known and beloved individuals, entire families and, possibly most heartbreaking, more stories about orphans whose world’s are tragically changed forever by human greed.
Christy, meanwhile, is trying to crack the ivory trade. Recently he embarked on an effort to expose the criminals involved by tracking the exact route ivory is taking through Africa to its end destination by getting fake tusks embedded with a tracker into the market. His work will be featured as the cover story in the September issue of National Geographic. For more info about Christy’s work, check out Explorer: Warlords of Ivory. To learn more about how to help orphaned elephants and stop the ivory trade check out the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust and iworry.org.
VIDEO: NAP TIME AT "THE KANGAROO SANCTUARY" ALICE SPRINGS
Just a 1-Minute, Darling Video of an Orphaned Joey at Nap Time. If you don't have a Facebook account, I don't think the video will appear. I apologize. I HATE FB, but it's a must-have for Twitter activists.
Bedtime for Indi our baby kangaroo (joey).
Posted by The Kangaroo Sanctuary Alice Springs on Monday, September 7, 2015
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