World Elephant Alliance
Working Towards a Brighter Future For Elephants
At World Elephant Alliance we’re promoting innovative solutions to help elephants who are facing the most dire threats and adverse conditions. We believe there is an urgent need to raise public awareness and take action to tackle these dangers that are causing so much physical and emotional suffering to elephants. Please join us by supporting our efforts to make a measurable difference in the lives of the worlds largest land mammals. Thank you.
About
World Elephant Alliance was formed in the spring of 2018 during the International Free the Elephants Conference, sponsored by Free the Oregon Zoo Elephants (FOZE). Due to the many different individuals and organizations working to help elephants, we realized there was a need to create a central place, a library of resources, that people from all around the world could access and use to enhance, expand and coordiante their efforts for elephants in their home countries of Asia and Africa, and in every country where elephants continue to live in captivity.
Our goal is for advocates to use these resources to address together the plight of captive elephants, in zoos and circuses, in the tourism industry, in religious ceremonies and anywhere elephants are held. Part of our mission is to educate the public about which tourist facilities and rescue organizations are truly ethical and are serving the elephants’ best interests. We believe by working as an alliance we are better prepared and able to help create a brighter future for captive as well as wild elephants everywhere.
Empathetic Actions
Make A Difference
The Lives of Temple Elephants
Temple elephants in India live very complicated lives, they are used for elaborate festivals that are geared for peoples enjoyment. Nothing supports the nature and needs of this highly intelligent mammals.
The Faces of Captivity
Confinement to a small yard, lack of dirt to dust, lack of adequate food, lack of a companion, lack of a pool to bath, lack of proper understanding by caretakers of the broad psychological and physical needs of an elephant. Captivity causes stress and the signs are: bobbing, swaying, aggression in various forms like running amok and injuring or killing people.
Foot Problems
A major issue elephants are dying in captivity is an unhealthy foot. Elephants are nomadic and made to walk the forests and savanna’s and not the pavements of our streets or the concrete stalls in zoos and other unnatural facilities. With our organization’s mission always in mind, we strive to find new strategies for dealing with this dilemma.
"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."
William James