World Elephant Day, August 12, 2017. This is the fifth World Elephant Day, a global event launched in 2012. This year numerous organizations dedicated to elephants are honoring this day in a […]
Elephant Update — Asia and Africa

Asia and Africa — where the elephants live. Separate species, the Asian and African elephants are unalike in many ways. One of the most pronounced differences is their coloration. African elephants […]
The Beginning of the End

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 Ivory Game

Thursday, November 4, Netflix will premier on its service the award-winning documentary, The Ivory Game (link to full press kit). The Ivory Game (link to website) poses the dark world of ivory […]
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 […]
Join the Herd on World Wildlife Day
Tomorrow, March 3, is World Wildlife Day. Established by the United Nations General Assembly in 2013, the purpose of World Wildlife Day is to build awareness of and develop solutions to threats […]
Elephants Forever Reached 102 Countries in 2015

Word Press just sent me the annual report on the Elephants Forever site and thanks to all of you, we had 5,100 visitors in 2015 from a total of 102 countries! On […]
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, […]
Must the Past be Prologue?

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 […]