With elephant populations dwindling worldwide this World Elephant Day’s message of ‘bringing the world together to help elephants’ (1) is especially important. 

Finding solutions to the biggest threats driving our wild elephants to extinction, human-elephant conflict and the illegal ivory trade leading to the poaching of our elephants, is what is desperately needed now. 

 

 

On 12 August 2012 World Elephant Day was founded. Elephant Spoken Here was founded on 12 August 2015 and our message to ‘save our elephants in the wild’ and to ‘help our elephants in captivity’ still stands. 

Elephant Spoken Here is proud to have played a part in elephant conservation for the past 8 years. There is no better cause to contribute your voice and your time.

 

 

 

The reality is we are losing our elephants far too soon and far too fast. Take a look at the elephant count in the following countries:

Country Count                                  Wild Elephant Population Count

#50  Guinea Bissau                             5  elephants

#49  Senegal                                    7  elephants

#48  Eswatini                                       39  elephants

#47  Sierra Leone                          70  elephants

#46  Vietnam                                        85  elephants

#45  Rwanda                                   100 elephants

#44  Eritrea                                           100 elephants

#43  Togo                                          120 elephants

#42  Nepal                                             150 elephants

#41  Bangladesh                             200 elephants

#40  Guinea                                          200 elephants

#39  China                                        210 elephants

#38  Cote D Ivoire                               225 elephants

#37  Cambodia                               260 elephants

#36  Niger                                             280 elephants

#35  Nigeria                                    300 elephants

#34  Ghana                                          325 elephants

#33  Mali                                         350 elephants

#32  Bhutan                                        400 elephants

#31  Liberia                                   400 elephants

#30  Chad                                           500 elephants

#29  Central Africa                    570 elephants

#28  Equatorial Guinea                  850 elephants

#27  South Sudan                      900 elephants

#26  Laos                                          1100 elephants

#25  Malawi                                1300 elephants

#24  Indonesia                                1500 elephants

#23  Benin                                  1700 elephants

#22  Ethiopia                                  1750 elephants

#21 Malaysia                             3000 elephants

#20  Angola                                    3300 elephants

#19  Thailand                            3500 elephants

#18  Myanmar                               4500 elephants

#17  Burkina Faso                   4500 elephants

#16  Uganda                                   4800 elephants

#15  Sudan                                 5000 elephants

#14  Cameroon                              6500 elephants

#13  Sri Lanka                          7500 elephants

#12  Mozambique                         10,000 elephants

#11  Dr Congo                           13,500 elephants

#10  Congo                                     16,000 elephants

#9   South Africa                     24,000 elephants

#8   Namibia                                  25,000 elephants

#7   Zambia                               26,500 elephants

#6   India                                       32,500 elephants

#5   Kenya                                 36,000 elephants

#4   Gabon                                     50,000 elephants

#3   Tanzania                           81,000 elephants

#2  Zimbabwe                              100,000 elephants

#1  Botswana                           130,000 elephants

Source (4)

 

 

 

What can you do on this World Elephant Day (1) to contribute your voice and your time for our elephants? 

 

 

 

 

Images: WED banner (2); & CC Flickr by Jorge Lascar (3) little one stumbles, elephant herd Tanzania; Elephant family Tanzania; starry sky Tanzania, the beauty of Africa; elephant family baby nursing, Tanzania; elephant herd Tanzania

 

Sources: 

(1) https://worldelephantday.org/ 

(2) https://worldelephantday.org/press-room

(3) https://flickr.com/photos/jlascar/albums/72157711072379217

(4) CC Video “Elephant Population By Country Comparison 2023”   https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=world+elephant+day+2023+Creative+Commons

(5) https://twitter.com/ESHelephants

 

 

 

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