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Design your own elephant for Elephant Parade
Use your artistic flair to save Asian Elephants by submitting your design to Elephant Parade, an open air art exhibition of decorated elephant statues designed by famous and upcoming artists to conserve Asian elephants and raise public awareness of their life-threatening situation. In the past 100 years Asian elephant populations have plummeted from 250,000 to 25,000. Hand painted miniatures are available in shops and online.
How Can We Ban Landmines?
By joining the Mine Ban Treaty, the U.S. would help send a clear signal that all types of antipersonnel mines are unacceptable weapons, would strengthen international security, and would spur to action some of the other 38 states still outside the treaty.
2 Elephants step on landmines in Sri Lanka on Int’l Landmine Awareness Day
Two elephants injured by landmine in Sri Lanka three months after elephant experts warned about the dangers of relocating the conservation area to a former war zone.
GoDaddy CEO Videotapes Himself Killing an Elephant
GoDaddy.com CEO posts a video of himself killing an elephant in Zimbabwe. In response, GoDaddy rival Namecheap.com is offering to donate 20% of every transfer to savetheelephants.org
“The Eyes of Thailand” unveils new film trailer for Int’l Elephant Day
The new “Eyes of Thailand” trailer features footage from the 2010 documentary trip to Thailand and Laos, including interviews with Soraida Salwala (FAE), Dr. Therchai Jivacite (Prostheses Foundation), Richard Lair (TECC), Galen Garwood, Paul Hannon (Mines Action Canada) and Reth Tun (ICBL).
New “Eyes of Thailand” Trailer Releases March 13, 2011
“The Eyes of Thailand” documentary unveils its dramatic new trailer March 13, 2011. It features interviews with Soraida Salwala (FAE), Dr. Therchai Jivacite (Prostheses Foundation), Richard Lair (TECC), Galen Garwood, Paul Hannon (Mines Action Canada) and Reth Tun (ICBL).




