Sunrise or sunset? Beginning or end? As one year comes to a close and another opens, it is natural to assess where we are and where we are going. For the elephants, […]
The Beginning of the End
Living Dinosaurs
Could elephants really become extinct in our lifetimes? Media coverage is now referring to elephants as “living dinosaurs.” An oxymoron? Not really. More of a prediction. A grim future for elephants is […]
Cheers!
This past Thursday, June 2, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service announced a near-total ban on the commercial trade of African elephant ivory. More than 1.3 million comments were filed during […]
New Year’s Greetings
Nothing like a new year to reflect, reboot, recommit and resolve! From the elephants’ point of view, 2015 was a better year than recent years. While poaching remains at a critical level, […]
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 […]
Join the Elephant Lobby
On February 11, 2014, President Obama announced he would take administrative action to ban the commercial trade of elephant ivory in the United States. In addition, he outlined a national strategy to […]
Olympians
If elephants had their own Olympic games, I imagine them being staged in Amboseli (Kenya) under their Mt. Olympus, Kilimanjaro. I had the privilege of attending the first week of the 2014 […]
Elemental Ivory
It is elemental that ivory belongs on elephants, not our shelves. The real world of course always makes things more complicated. Recent, high profile destruction of ivory stockpiles (China, U.S., Philippines) have […]
Close to Home
July has been a busy month for elephant news, abroad and in the United States, beginning with President Obama’s July 1st Executive Order calling for monetary and technical assistance in the fight […]
Gratitude
These two elephants are happy to see each other. They are not strangers; nor have they been separated for long. Part of the same breeding herd, they are just having fun at […]
