🐘World Elephant Day🐘

What's not to like about Elephants, they are intelligent, family-orientated, got great memories, and feel a range of emotions from deep sadness to joy. The young elephants are so funny and there is something cute about them.

Unfortunately far too many are killed every year for their ivory by poachers, I personally would kill the poachers. They kill the elephants, take the ivory and leave the carcasses to rot. What a waste of a truly magnificent animal.

This day was started in 2011 to draw attention to the plight of these lovely creatures. They are the world's largest land animal and everybody loves them. They do, like most animals, face threats to their survival .

The biggest threat is the ivory trade and is the biggest in China, who are so rich they will pay very high money for ivory tusks, the price of ivory often exceeds the price of gold. The other is habitation loss, 100 years ago they numbered 12 million and now they are down to about 400,000 with 20,000 being killed by poachers every year. A sobering thought.

Ok, as it is World Elephant Day, let's post all things Elephant-related, along with our usual fun and chitchat, and let's try and make sure these wonderful creatures don't become extinct like so many other species. One way to help is not to buy anything with ivory in!