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Welcome to Angels for Elephants!

I created this blog to go along with my twitter account @occupy4eles, which I started to raise awareness for the plights of Asian and African Elephants and serve as a reliable source of news updates from around the world.

I also hope to inspire people to be an Angel for Elephants in their own right, by providing the public with actionable items they can take to help save the species from extinction, and improve the quality of life for those held in captivity.

I invite those who also share a passion for elephants to also post here to:

Share petitions

Share info about protests in their area

Share information about what they’re doing to help elephants

Provide support to other activists and advocates.

Temple and Festival Elephants

SIEM REAP, CAMBODIA - The new coronavirus has left its mark on Angkor Wat, the world’s top tourist attraction. Foreign visitors are rare, the elephants are being rehoused and local businesses have gone bankrupt, but for Cambodians it’s a chance to reclaim their heritage. Authorities s

June 22, 2020

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The Kerala Forest Department on Wednesday arrested three people in connection with the death of a 10-year-old female elephant in Kollam district’s Pathanapuram area in April, IANS reported. Unidentified forest officials told The News Minute that the elephant fell prey to a trap that w

June 22, 2020

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Forest officials inspect the temple elephant, Lakshmi, that was translocated to Perunthalaivar Kamaraj Krishi Vigyan Kendra (PKKVK). | Photo Credit: T. Singaravelou The pachyderm is unlike most wild-to-capture animals: officials Lakshmi, the popular elephant of the Sri Manakula Vina

June 22, 2020

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Cruel Elephant Attractions

Last week’s surge in new, locally transmitted Covid-19 cases in China, serves as a reminder to the rest of Asia that the possibility of a second wave may be all too real. A similar surprise second wave hit Singapore at the start of April after it appeared the island nation had been su

June 22, 2020

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June 22, 2020

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Ethical tourism and socially minded travel could become the new normal. Photo: Getty Images/iStockphotoFrom cruelly chained elephants and drugged tigers to smuggled exotic species, animal cruelty is rife in the travel industry – but today’s disruption offers a golden opportunity to re

June 22, 2020

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Trophy Hunting

The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. (THE CONVERSATION) Three-quarters of new and emerging infectious diseases in humans originate in wildlife. COVID-19, SARS and Ebola all started this way. The COVID-19 global

June 19, 2020

by angel

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled Tuesday that the US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) could issue permits for hunters to import elephant trophies from Zimbabwe. The FWS created a general ban on the importation of hunting trophies to the US. However, th

June 17, 2020

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(Robin Silver / Center for Biological Diversity via Courthouse News)WASHINGTON (CN) — Conservation groups failed Tuesday to persuade the D.C. Circuit that the Trump administration improperly carved out a loophole for big-game hunters to import elephant tusks and lion hides from Africa

June 16, 2020

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Poaching

Monday, 22 June 2020 | SAROJ MISHRA | BHUBANESWAR Even though the World Environment Day was observed on June 5, wildlife crimes like unbridled poaching of protected animals like elephants, leopards and porcupines are being carried out in the forests under the Khordha Forest Division i

June 22, 2020

by angel

In the spring of 2017, Shari Overstreet and Mary Meisenbach were in Thailand, volunteering at the Elephant Nature Park, when an elephant there died. A park employee told Overstreet that if they’d had a certain piece of equipment, it potentially could have saved the animal. Heartbroken

June 22, 2020

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Asian elephants are endangered, while African elephants are deemed vulnerable. African elephants are less endangered than their counterparts in Asia, but both face serious risks. Michelle Gadd [public domain]/USFWS/Flickr There are two main groups of elephants left on Earth: African

June 22, 2020

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Other Immediate Threats

Take action by adopting an elephant from one of these trusted Non-Profits working tirelessly to save and protect elephants.

June 29, 2020

The plight of the palm oil elephants There are precious few elephants left in Borneo, and the population gets smaller every year. Forests where they live are being slashed to make way for palm oil plantations, making it more and more difficult for elephants and farmers to thrive toget

June 28, 2020

The terrible fate of Raja the baby elephant, chained and held hostage by an angry mob: An image that will haunt you and a story that will enrage you In this shocking expose the Duchess of Cornwall’s brother reveals how baby elephant Raja was shockingly mistreated as he was kept

June 28, 2020

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Circus Cruelty

Take action by adopting an elephant from one of these trusted Non-Profits working tirelessly to save and protect elephants.

June 29, 2020

The plight of the palm oil elephants There are precious few elephants left in Borneo, and the population gets smaller every year. Forests where they live are being slashed to make way for palm oil plantations, making it more and more difficult for elephants and farmers to thrive toget

June 28, 2020

The terrible fate of Raja the baby elephant, chained and held hostage by an angry mob: An image that will haunt you and a story that will enrage you In this shocking expose the Duchess of Cornwall’s brother reveals how baby elephant Raja was shockingly mistreated as he was kept

June 28, 2020

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