A timeless image — elephants crossing the grasslands, feeding, interacting, doing what they have done for millennia. They (and their distant, now extinct cousins) walked the earth long before the advent of […]
Must the Past be Prologue?
Charlotte Rush Bailey
photographer, world traveler, communicator, wife, adventurer, champion of elephants
Cures for Cancers
Did you know that elephants rarely get cancer? For some time, scientists have been studying the incidence of cancer in various animals and have been baffled by the absence of cancer in […]
Giants’ Steps
Did you know that the largest land mammal — the multi-ton elephant — can walk by you in such silence that you may not even know they are present unless you see […]
Technology, Tusks and Terrorists
The cover story of National Geographic’s September issue is entitled “Tracking Ivory.” A companion piece, “Warlords of Ivory,” aired last night on the National Geographic TV channel. Both cover the bold effort […]
Happy World Elephant Day!
What have you done for the elephants today? There is still time to act, if not today, then tomorrow or the next. But don’t put it off for too long. Your voice […]
World Elephant Day — Be a Part of the Action!
Tomorrow, Wednesday, August 12, is World Elephant Day. While for some of us, every day is Elephant Day, tomorrow provides an opportunity to rally around the many great efforts that are in […]
Cecil’s Legacy
The outrage over the murder of Zimbabwe’s most famous lion, Cecil, by an American dentist is sparking renewed pledges to “do something” about illegal wildlife trafficking. As it should. And not a […]
Photo Essay: Life Without Mom
The ancients thought that rain was the tears of the Gods. During my most recent visit to the David Sheldrick Trust orphanage for elephants in Nairobi, the heavens opened up and poured […]
Life Insurance
The African elephant’s natural life span in the wild is up to 70 years. The median age is 56, meaning that half die before 56 and half live to be older than […]
Eye on Elephants
Did you know? Elephants have relatively small eyes for an animal of their size. Their eyes’ position on the sides of their massive heads produces better peripheral than binocular vision. Elephants rely […]
