In December 2018, the elephants encouraged me to write about the 15th Elephant Festival in Sauraha, Nepal, a village bordering Chitwan National Park, which you can read here. Six years later the elephants are still forced to participate in this festival. Recently actor, film producer, and animal advocate, John Abraham compassionately urged the Nepal Government…

ElephantVoices.org shares that the Amboseli elephant population is a cross-border population inhabiting both Kenya and Tanzania. The ecosystem includes Amboseli National Park and the surrounding conservancies and lands in Kenya (~8,000 km2) and the Enduimet Wildlife Management Area and beyond in Tanzania. There are currently ~2,000 elephants using this ecosystem. For 51 years these elephants…

This post is by Elke Riesterer. Nestled in a beautiful pastoral landscape is Europe’s First Elephant Sanctuary, Elephant Haven. I have been very excited to visit this place knowing many elephants live in captivity in various states of the EU. Practicing body therapy for all species (human and non-human) for over 25 years, my special…

This post is by Alyne Fortgang, of Humane Voters Washington. Elephant Sands is a modest lodge in Botswana which was started by Marie and Ben Moller out of their love for elephants. Tragically, Marie suddenly passed away a few months ago. Ben’s daughter and son-in-law do much of the heavy lifting now. Their story has…

This is a guest post by Trish London, DVM. As a consultant with Global Sanctuary for Elephants in Brazil, I spend a couple of months a year there. I also helped with the last 4 transports to the sanctuary. In addition, when I am not there I consult remotely with Kat and Scott almost daily…

This is a guest post by Steve Koyle of Elephant Care Unchained. The captive elephant is a tragic story. Throughout my 20 years of caring for elephants I’ve seen and witnessed a lot of pain and suffering. More so since I’ve established Elephant Care Unchained in 2016. Over my 20 years of working for elephants…

The word Anthropocene has been described as the ‘great acceleration caused by humans‘ originating from the words ‘anthropo’ which in Greek translates to human, and ‘cene’ translates to new. In this new era, Earth has undeniably undergone a quickening of degradation with the irreparable extinction of species. This devastating loss of biodiversity has greatly impacted…

This is a guest post by Scott Blais who manages, with Kat Haselau Blais,  Global Sanctuary for Elephants in Brazil. Working with and, more importantly, for elephants is an extraordinary life, and providing them with the freedoms of sanctuary leaves us at a loss for words to describe the depth of gratitude we feel. With…

by amber brovelli  September, 2021 Mahatma Gandhi said, “The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” No? This rings more true today than ever before with the transparency documented online in the world wide connected web. You see, there is no villain and no…

In the wild, elephants eat mostly grass, wild fruits, twigs, shrubs, bamboo and a variety of plants. Their main food source is grass when it is available to them. Elephants will also happily eat tree bark, plant roots and even soil. Elephants are herbivores and roughly digest only 50% of their food. Elephants are known…

(This blog post is reproduced with permission from Animal Nature Connect) Early December 2019 while in Sauraha Nepal I reached out to Sudha Dhakal by email. Sudha was listed as the contact person for a new elephant sanctuary I wished to visit – I read this sanctuary was to be created in Sauraha. Sudha replied…

In 2016 I met Steven Wise at the historic Hollywood Theatre in Portland Oregon while screening Unlocking The Cage. This documentary follows attorney Steven Wise and his team making history by filing lawsuits on behalf of his animal clients. Steven argues his clients should be considered legal persons. The law defines a Legal Person as…

Rachel Mathews is an attorney and the director of the Captive Animal Law Enforcement division of the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) Foundation. She works in behalf of animals, particularly elephants, who are held captive in circuses and roadside zoos. Her team’s many victories include prompting animal circuses to shut down or…

Campaigns on behalf of elephants suffering in zoos are contributing to the public’s awareness of the inherent cruelty of caging all wild animals. In Seattle, WA, Friends of Woodland Park Zoo Elephants’ (Friends) effort to retire Bamboo, Chai and Watoto, to PAWS sanctuary in CA spanned over a decade.  In that time, we helped the…