World Elephant Day!
Tue, 12 Aug
|Virtual
Celebrate our gentle giants of Asia ad Africa and the world conservation going into them on World Elephant Day!
Time & Location
12 Aug 2025, 12:00 am – 11:50 pm
Virtual
About the event
What is World Elephant Day?
World Elephant Day is a day when we celebrate all types of elephants, their impact on their natural habitats, and why and how we need to help them. Elephants are in desperate need of our help, with stronger efforts against poaching and education for everyone. No one is too unimportant or uneducated to help raise awareness and protect elephants and the ecosystems they depend on. Although it might seem like the future for elephants is looking bleak, elephant populations have been going up and down since 2000, so it's not over just yet. If we keep fighting for them, their populations can recover.
Poaching
Poaching is one of the biggest threats to elephants around the world. They're hunted for their tusks, which can sell for thousands of Australian dollars on the black market. But, why are they so valuable? Well, ivory is said to have…