This film will break your heart and that’s the very reason you should watch it and share it and talk about it and hopefully do something, anything, to help our elephants. I didn’t remember that Lily Tomlin loved elephants. Now I can’t help but love her too. She narrates this documentary “An Apology to Elephants.” … Continue reading »
Mama elephant Mae Yui and her calf MeBai shared a big hug as they wrapped their trunks around each after a gratifying reunion earlier this year, reports Jake Poldon for Daily Mail Online. With human intervention, and very caring humans at that, they were both relocated to the Elephant Nature Park in the Chiang Mai … Continue reading »
Name: ROI Date of Birth: Friday 27 December 2013 Gender: Female Where: The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust Nursery Nairobi Kenya Africa ROI: Too Cute For Photos see them at: The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust On a crisp day in October a baby elephant was sighted and photographed by a wayfarer in the Olare Orok Conservancy … Continue reading »
It was an eventful day when Shirley the elephant arrived in the transport truck on 6 July 1999 at her new home at The Elephant Sanctuary in Hohenwald, Tennessee. Even with all of the emotion surrounding her arrival, elephant emotions included, Shirley could never have imagined that a special encounter would be only hours away! … Continue reading »
Name: Maggie Date of Birth: 1980 Place of Birth: Zimbabwe, Africa Gender: Female Where Now: PAWS Sanctuary African Elephant Loxodonta Africana For more Photos and also Videos of Maggie you will love see them at: PAWS Sanctuary It was 1981 when Maggie was taken in a culling; her mother left dead on the savanna. Two years … Continue reading »
Name at Birth: Chang Dee Name Now: Prince Date of Birth: 24 May 1987 Place of Birth: Portland, Oregon at the Oregon Zoo Mother: Me-Tu also born at the Oregon Zoo Father: Hugo who was donated to the Oregon Zoo, several years before Chang Dee’s birth, by Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey Circus Gender: Male … Continue reading »
Name: Kamok Date of Birth: 7 September 2013 Gender: Female Where: The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust Nursery Nairobi Kenya Africa Kamok: Too Cute For Photos see them at: The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust Found alone and wavering, she was rescued at one day old on 8 September 2013, a Sunday. The DSWT rescuers discovered that the … Continue reading »
Hope For a New Beginning But there is hope. Geeta Seshamani of Wildlife SOS has offered assistance in the matter. They were responsible for rescuing Raju, now 51, who endured repeated head beatings so severe it blinded him. The elephant and the journalist came together recently at the Wildlife SOS’s refuge near New Delhi. … Continue reading »
Elephants are in serious need our help. The annihilation of our elephants in the wild (poaching) must stop. The inhumane treatment (elephant abuse) of our elephants in captivity must come to an end. Hence, our Elephant Spoken Here blog was born. Yes, they belong to each of us (thus the term “our elephants”), if … Continue reading »