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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

Elephant lover wills Rs 5cr property to jumbo pets

An elephant lover in Bihar has willed his entire property worth Rs 5 crore to his two pet jumbos.Akhtar Imam, 50, a resident of Janipur on the outskirts of the state capital, is a well-known elephant lover, who runs a trust called ‘Aerawat’ (Asian Elephant Rehabilitation and Wildlife
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June 22, 2020
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Use of elephants to pull chariots opposed

By Express News Service PURI: Social activists and scholars have expressed reservations about the suggestion made by the Orissa High Court to try alternative methods like machines or elephants for pulling the chariots during Rath Yatra. Environmentalist Jagannath Bastia, in a letter t
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June 22, 2020
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Machines or elephants may pull chariots in Puri Rath Yatra this time instead of devotees

Home / India News / Machines or elephants may pull chariots in Puri Rath Yatra this time instead of devotees A PIL by an advocate had sought the High Court’s intervention for the use of machinery for pulling the chariots in view of the Covid-19 pandemic. Traditionally, hundreds of dev
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June 22, 2020
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Cruel Elephant Attractions

Petition to save Thai elephants

BANGKOK, 22 June 2020: A British citizen Susan Fields, who lives on Samui Island, presented a petition with almost 65,000 signatures to the Thai Government at the weekend asking it to provide urgent financial aid for elephants and their handlers who have received no income since touri
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June 22, 2020
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Coronavirus: Captured elephants in southeast Asia starving to death amid tourism industry collapse

Elephants held in captivity in southeast Asia have been on the brink of starvation for months, ever since the COVID-19 pandemic came along and brought the tourism industry to its knees. These majestic animals have to eat 10 per cent of their body weight daily, which is becoming increa
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June 22, 2020
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8 Ways Your Elephant Rides Amount To Cruelty

By Alice Chen on June 19 2020 in Environment An elephant in chains forced to walk on a concrete road in unnatural conditions by a man carrying a stick. Image credit: Panupong unson/Shutterstock.comA captured elephant calf can be sold in Thailand for over $30,000. Elephants in riding c
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June 22, 2020
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Trophy Hunting


Poaching

Other Immediate Threats

World’s smallest elephants killed for ivory in Borneo | Environment | The Guardian

World’s smallest elephants killed for ivory in Borneo Asian elephants have faced less poaching than their African cousins but the latest grisly finds have led conservationists to worry for their survival Borneo’s elephants are the smallest in the world. Even the planet’s smalles
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June 28, 2020
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TEAPSPA Tweetstorm- Ban Circus Cruelty in the US

A bill banning the use of wild and exotic animals in all US Circuses has been introduced to the House.  It’s up to us to get it passed. TEAPSPA, the bill that will end the use of wild or exotic animals in all US circuses was reintroduced in the house by Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ) and David
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June 28, 2020
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British expat petitions government to help desperate elephants, handlers

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
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June 22, 2020
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Circus Cruelty

World’s smallest elephants killed for ivory in Borneo | Environment | The Guardian

World’s smallest elephants killed for ivory in Borneo Asian elephants have faced less poaching than their African cousins but the latest grisly finds have led conservationists to worry for their survival Borneo’s elephants are the smallest in the world. Even the planet’s smalles
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June 28, 2020
by emilyanncr
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TEAPSPA Tweetstorm- Ban Circus Cruelty in the US

A bill banning the use of wild and exotic animals in all US Circuses has been introduced to the House.  It’s up to us to get it passed. TEAPSPA, the bill that will end the use of wild or exotic animals in all US circuses was reintroduced in the house by Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ) and David
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June 28, 2020
by emilyanncr
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British expat petitions government to help desperate elephants, handlers

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
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June 22, 2020
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