Film Info2 minutes
Wildlife Conservation Society Available for Free AND Ticketed Events Synopsis: Elephants - so different in form, yet with an inner life that rivals our own. This short video tells the tale of a single elephant, but provides powerful testimony to the experience of the species as a whole at this crucial moment in their existence. Together, we must not be generation that allows elephants to disappear. |
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Action Items
- Don’t buy, sell or wear ivory
- Buy coffee and wood harvested sustainably to protect the elephant’s habitat
- Support on the ground initiatives such as, The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, and the Amboseli Elephant Research Project, and Roots and Shoots
- Never ride an elephant or support elephant ride companies
- Boycott Circuses that use trained elephants
- Sign the petition to reauthorize the Multinational Species Conservation Funds http://www.96elephants.org/fight-the-crime#petition
- Write to your senator (www.senate.gov) or your U.S. House Representative (www.house.gov) about making the sale of ivory illegal
- Write to:
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
International Affairs
Division of International Conservation
4401 N. Fairfax Drive, MS 100
Arlington, VA 22203