sickening news for forest elephants
got this from Melissa Groo, who does Save the Elephants’ daily roundup of new stories about elephants around the world. Melissa (who is also a phenomenal bird photographer. we spent the last week of March on the Platte River in Nebraska where 600,000 sandhill cranes were doing their dances and fueling up for the trip …Read More
the battle for the elephants is raging
last year more elephants were killed than in 2011, which was when my piece, “Agony and Ivory,” came out in Vanity Fair, and 2011 was the worst year in twenty years, when the last, Japan-consumer-driven pogrom on pachyderms took place. The piece was followed by hard-hitting reportage by the National Geographic and the New York …Read More
baby elephant rescued from well in Amboseli National Park Kenya
by researchers with Cynthia Moss’s Amboseli Elephant Trust, which is celebrating its 40th birthday. These people do great work not only life-saving, but species saving. check out this great video : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOHw7lX3Gu4
A third hard-hitting article on the ivory trade
this one “Blood Ivory” in the current National Geographic. It has a lot of undercover reportage about the Phillipine, Thai, and Chinese ivory market, as Andrew Revkin reports in his blog : http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/14/a-report-exposes-how-the-chinese-government-is-fueling-elephant-slaughter/
here’s the link. http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2012/10/ivory/christy-text
well worth reading. let’s hope it and the one in the Times do some good. the time so stop this …Read More
new york times editorial on elephant slaughter
Elephant Slaughter Editorial, New York Times
September 8, 2012
Not long ago it looked as though elephant poaching in Africa was on the downswing, in part because of more rigorous enforcement of a global ban on trade in most elephant ivory imposed in 1989. That moment is gone and with it, elephants in the tens of thousands every …Read More
the latest grim news about the ongoing slaughter of africa’s elephants
and Andrew Revkin’s blog about it, with a kind appreciation of my 2010 Vanity Fair piece, “Agony and Ivory”
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/04/a-searing-look-at-ties-between-africas-wars-and-the-ivory-trade/
ethical priorities
Innocent elephants are being killed in Africa, innocent civilizians are being killed in Syria. A few days back I read that 100 Syrian civilians had been killed the day before by the government of the ruthlessly authoritarian obviously doomed to fall Assad, the same estimated daily rate as the ongoing slaughter of Africa’s elephants. This …Read More
here’s a whiff of the uncanny for you
I just this morning returned to a piece I had to set aside in late November and was at the section that talks about how empathetic elephants are. And I was just about to write about this retired circus elephant on a sanctuary in Tennessee who developed an inseparable friendship eight years ago with a …Read More
what’s happening in and to the world this week ending November 25
The Trailside Nature Museum at the Ward Pound Ridge Reservation in Cross River, New York, is being closed in January by Westchester County budget cuts. This is really sad. Kids need to learn about natural history and to become literate in the flora and fauna they live amid, to have their natural biophilia, their love …Read More
elephant news
My Vanity Fair story “Agony and Ivory” was republished in the October GQ China. Just the audience we want to reach.
A rough unedited video of me performing my song for the elephants, which reinforces the message, is up on Youtube : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dniGHHETqs
A few weeks ago New Vision, the official government paper of Uganda, reported that …Read More