Happy World Elephant Day!
Today is World Elephant Day. This dedicated day was launched back in 2012 to bring attention to the plight that African and Asian elephants face both in the wild and in captivity.
Elephants are loved, revered and respected by people around the world, but poaching, habitat loss, human-elephant conflict, as well as mistreatment in captivity in some countries, are their main threats to their survival.
Many worldwide organisations work towards the better protection for wild elephants – improving enforcement policies to prevent poaching and the illegal ivory trade, conserving elephant habitats, better treatment for captive elephants and, when appropriate, the reintroduction of captive elephants into protected sanctuaries.
The best way we here in Zambia can support our elephants and find out more about them is to visit one of National Parks and see them in their natural habitat.
You can see them whilst on safari at South Luangwa, Lower Zambezi, Kasanka, Kafue and Mosi-au-Tunya National Parks.
Find out more about African elephants at www.arc.com and about World Elephant Day at www.worldelephantday.org