End the awful, appalling abuse on Asian Elephants

Thank you for opening our blog; Based entirely on saving the Asian elephants. Our charity, the Elephant Family is the biggest elephant charity in England, and fights for Asian elephants. Based in London, it raises money and works closely with 12 smaller charities over Asia. They work hard all year round, to raise as much money as they can as every week, every day, innocent elephants are dying.


But why should you care?

There aren’t many reasons for us to hate Asian elephants; they don’t harm us unless we harm them. The simple fact is innocent elephants are dying and can human conscience really sit back and watch that happen. In the past 10 years, 80%-90% of the population has been wiped out. In the next 30 years they could disappear altogether.

We need to act now.

There is, and never will be, enough space. The human population is growing, and free land for elephants to graze and live on is shrinking. Without any space, elephant’s raid farmer’s crops resulting in farmers acting violent towards elephants (this is called human/elephant conflict). Elephant are widely hated in areas as they are widely known to injure or even kill people, which can give them a bad name.

But is it all really their fault?

Elephants need somewhere to live, just like you and me. They need food to eat and places to explore. If you were homeless and constantly moving around, and you found some land full of food and shelter, wouldn’t you make the most of it? Farmers don’t see this though, and get angry at the elephants; the consequence shown clearly on the photo above.

So what can we do?

Corridors; a safe place for elephants to pass through, from one forest to another. No farmers, no poachers, just a safe passageway for elephants. Elephant Family are aiming to make as many corridors as possible, but they have only just started. Already they have raised so much money; in the past year over 5 million. But there is lots of work to do. Only by hard work and commitment have they raised these types of amounts. But funding is vital to keep the Asian Elephants alive.
The Elephant family need supporting; the more people who raise awareness for this tragic story, the more hope the future will hold. Only 100,000 signatures; that’s the amount the Elephant family needs to take their case to the government. Follow the link and do your bit – http://www.elephantfamily.org/sign-our-petition

To help with our studies, we would be thankful if you could please answer the following questions. It would be great if you could please leave your hometown and country, or even just your country, as then we can see who is visiting, reading, and posting on our blog to help with our research.

1. Have you heard of the charity Elephant Family before?
2. Do you now, after reading our blog, feel more informed of this issue?
3. Would you be prepared to donate/support to the charity in any way (for example; signing the online petition which only takes a few minutes)


Once again, thank you very much.

Hannah and Georgie.