2350 Awarenes,World Wildlife Conservation Day

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The sad truth is that the world’s best loved, beautiful and fascinating species are being slaughtered by widespread and dangerous criminal networks that will stop at nothing to get what they want. And what they want are animal parts and products that for reasons no sane person really understands, are worth lots of money. There are plenty of synthetic substitutes for things like ivory and fur that don’t require the brutal slaughter of an animal to obtain, not to mention how hard it actually is to tell the difference between high-quality synthetic substitutes and the real thing. And do you mean to tell me no other dish in the world tastes as good as shark fin soup, and that we really have to mutilate live sharks and then throw them back into the ocean to die? Long story short, there is simply no excuse for the amount of animals being poached every year. And yet they are. In 2011 alone, for example, there were 13 large-scale seizures of ivory, and over 23 tons of ivory confiscated, which is equivalent to at least 2,500 elephants. A 2010 United Nations report suggests that gorillas could disappear altogether from large parts of the Congo Basin by the mid-2020s.

And it is not just the animals that are suffering. Park rangers get killed on a regular basis by poachers they’re trying to stop, and the local economies of entire towns and villages suffer terrible damage once enough wildlife is wiped out to make them irrelevant as wildlife tourism destinations. Corruption and intimidation are weakening law enforcement efforts. Unscreened wildlife and wildlife parts increase the risk of human health pandemics such as bird flu. Everyone involved is suffering.

The History of World Wildlife Conservation Day

A call to action was put out by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 2012 to raise awareness and engage conservationists on Wildlife Conservation Day, December 4. During the “Wildlife Trafficking and Conservation: A Call to Action” event held at the State Department on November 8th 2012, Secretary Clinton outlined the White House’s strategy to address the global problem of wildlife trafficking. These efforts are estimated to cost between $7 and $10 billion dollars a year. “Wildlife cannot be manufactured. And once it’s gone, it cannot be replenished. Those who profit from it illegally are not just undermining our borders and our economies, they are truly stealing from the next generation,” she said.

How to Celebrate World Wildlife Conservation Day

Raise awareness and contribute to the conservation and protection of endangered species such as elephants, rhinos and tigers on World Wildlife Conservation Day’s website. This global occasion provides everyone with the opportunity to learn more about wildlife conservation and to be part of the solution to wildlife crime. Go online and join the thousands of other individuals who have taken the wildlife pledge. Promise to learn more about wildlife conservation, to spread the word about the importance of protecting our plane’ts most endangered species and the impact of poaching on our environment. Learn how to become a responsible consumer in order to stop illicit wildlife trade.

You can also take direct action by making a charitable donation to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). 100% of all donations go towards training and equipping the rangers who are the wildlife protectors, and often the only thing standing between a baby tiger or elephant and a poacher.

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2201 National Elephant Appreciation Day , tribute to Gloria

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women who write this stories about elephant : vicki-fishlock
http://www.ifaw.org/united-states/node/341
In this blog, http://www.ifaw.org/united-states/node/341I  
will concentrate on four of my study families: the AA, EA, GB and JA families. Elephants in Amboseli are named according to their family, so that all individuals in the family start with the same letter.

Amboseli Elephant Families: Flexibility Brings Success for the GBs

                                  story abot them :http://www.ifaw.org/united-states/node/2954

Cynthia Moss first identified the GB family in 1975. They were distinctive – with two tuskless females and a one-tusker, they should have been unique. But elephants are not known for being straightforward, and in fact there were two Amboseli families with these characteristics, both numbering 12 individuals. It took Cynthia a few sightings to clearly distinguish the BB and GB families. Today, both these families form part of my study population, and they’re now very different in size and composition. Sadly all those big tuskless females have died, so I know them only from photographs and the reminiscing of my ATE colleagues.The GBs were not what we would consider “central” elephants in the early days – attested to by the fact it took Cynthia three years to spot them. Amboseli is not a large park, but the ecosystem spans 8,000 sq km, and in fact Cynthia suspected the GBs came into the Park having lost their former range to agricultural developments to the East of the Park. This “immigrant” status does affect their relationships with other families – they have never been a dominant family and are still easily displaced by other elephant families.They may not be dominant, but the GBs certainly are tenacious; they persevered with their new home range and never left for long, so that now they’re as central as any family. It was a smart move on the part of Gloria, the tuskless matriarch, and throughout the 1980s and 1990s the family did very well, growing steadily in number despite some challenging drought years.In 2000, after at least 26 years as leader, Gloria died. Examining her teeth, the ATE team discovered she was at least fifty years old and her teeth were worn down to a tiny area. She died naturally of old age – which is in itself quite an achievement for an elephant whose life has spanned such a period of human population growth, wildlife conflict and poaching.After Gloria died, Geraldine as the next oldest female took over as matriarch. Individual personalities and leadership styles are very important to elephants because a good matriarch must balance the needs of her family. One-tusked Grace clearly didn’t agree with Geraldine’s leadership style, and eventually she left with her daughters to form her own family who became known as the GB2s. Grace had five surviving daughters and managed to build herself a successful family. The original GBs also did well under Geraldine’s leadership.The good times were not to last however for either family. In 2007 Geraldine died of natural old age, and in 2008 Grace also died. Then in 2009 Gwen, Grace’s eldest daughter disappeared, a suspected victim of poachers at the same time the Amboseli elephants experienced the worst drought in living memory. In total, the two families combined lost 16 of their 39 members. The new matriarchs were both much younger than the females they replaced – Golda at 35 years old became matriarch of the GBs, and Gail took on the leadership of the GB2s when she was just 24.Now, two years after the drought the families have stabilised. Gail brings her family to join the GBs so often that if I were beginning a study of them now and had none of the background history I would consider them as one family. Most of the females are pregnant, and we wait to see whether the births of these new calves will cement the bonds between the two families, or serve to split them apart. I expect, and hope for the former. The families currently look like this;

The lovely Gloria, who originally brought the GB family to Amboseli. Cynthia Moss took this photo in 1977

Gloria 

Golda

Georgia

Elephant Appreciation Day is celebrated on September 22, 2015. Elephants are large mammals of the family Elephantidae. Elephants are scattered throughout sub-Saharan Africa, and South and Southeast Asia. The largest living terrestrial animals, male African elephants can reach a height of 4 m (13 ft) and weigh 7,000 kg (15,000 lb). These animals have several distinctive features, including a long proboscis or trunk used for many purposes, particularly for grasping objects. 

African elephants are listed as vulnerable by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), while the Asian elephant is classed as endangered. One of the biggest threats to elephant populations is the ivory trade, as the animals are poached for their ivory tusks. Other threats to wild elephants include habitat destruction and conflicts with local people. Elephants are used as working animals in Asia. In the past they were used in war; today, they are often put on display in zoos and circuses. Elephants are highly recognisable and have been featured in art, folklore, religion, literature and popular culture.

Elephants exhibit mirror self-recognition, an indication of self-awareness and cognition that has also been demonstrated in some apes and dolphins. Elephants are popularly thought of as having an excellent memory. This could have a factual basis; they possibly have cognitive maps to allow them to remember large-scale spaces over long periods of time. Individuals appear to be able to keep track of the current location of their family members. Scientists debate the extent to which elephants feel emotion. They appear to show interest in the bones of their own kind, regardless of whether they are related. (With material from: Wikipedia) 

once again , with my unposted pictures i want to pay attention about all elephants on the word who chased because of their ivories

it is really sad, but have a look at this links to a pictures.elephant is killed because of ivory 

http://voices.nationalgeographic.com/2014/09/15/opinion-can-elephants-survive-a-continued-ivory-trade-ban/

http://voices.nationalgeographic.com/2015/04/30/ivory-is-worthless-elephants-are-invaluable-why-malawis-ivory-is-not-for-sale/

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2109 World Elephant Day , cross fingers for MALI from Philipine zoo!

We admire elephants in part because they demonstrate what we consider the finest human traits: empathy, self-awareness, and social intelligence. But the way we treat them puts on display the very worst of human behavior

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mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/worlds-loneliest-elephant-been-kept-

http://action.peta.org.uk/ petition elephant
Mali has not felt grass under her feet or had contact with another ­elephant for nearly 40 years. The trees around her walls are out of reach.She was snatched away from her ­mother in Sri Lanka aged three and sent to the Philippines as a gift to then ­president Ferdinand Marcos in 1977.Now 40 years old, Mali spends most of her waking hours leaning against the concrete walls in an attempt to ease her excruciatingly painful foot problems.Her only respite from the monotony of her confinement is picking up peanuts thrown into her small enclosure by visitors.Campaigners say her stark surroundings in Manila Zoo have left her chronically ­depressed and suffering from a host of potentially ­life-threatening ailments.A Brit-run elephant sanctuary in Thailand has offered Mali a home and the funding to transport her there, but Filipino officials have refused to let her go.Jason Baker, vice president of Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) Asia, told the Sunday People: “Mali is suffering immensely, both physically and mentally.“There is nothing more important to ­elephants than friends and family. In the wild, female elephants stay in close-knit extended groups for their entire lives.
“Aunts babysit, grandmothers mentor and siblings play. The entire herd participates in rearing young calves. Births are joyous ­celebrations and loved ones are mourned.“These complex social animals need others who look like them, smell like them and understand them in order to lead fulfilling, happy lives.“Mali is totally alone at the Manila Zoo and is profoundly depressed. Keeping her in isolation is extremely cruel.”
Perhaps saddest of all are signs outside her enclosure describing the habitat she should live in.
Jason explained: “The sign states elephants ‘favour areas with grass, coupled with low trees’ yet all Mali has is concrete.

and here is our zoo elephant , alone , it lost its partner , at least have a grass under foot..but small area

picture taken a years ago

                                                         and picture from 2014

1826 MoYou stamping nail art , tribute to EHO , save the elephants day

Eho story  :) http://www.elephantvoices.org/studies-a-projects/echo-of-the-elephants.html
have you heard about her ?
i was watching many time on National Geography tv channel
all her children has name with the first letter E
When Moss identified Echo for the first time in 1973, the elephant's family consisted of 7 members. At the time of her death, 36 years later, Echo was the leader of a family of 40 elephants that roamed the Amboseli plains in the shadow of the majestic Kilimanjaro.
We admire elephants in part because they demonstrate what we consider the finest human traits: empathy, self-awareness, and social intelligence. But the way we treat them puts on display the very worst of human behavior

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EHO AND HER FAMILY:

 http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/unforgettable-elephants-echos-family-tree/4488/