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Save Elephant Foundation (SEF) and Elephant Nature Park (ENP)—founded by Saengduean Lek Chailert, is in a race against time to not only feed starving elephants but to also transition elephants across...

01/07/2020

When faced with a crisis, coming together is the one vehicle of change humans have when it comes to fighting for their future, says social psychologist Stephen Reicher.

30/06/2020

Join Lek Live with National Geographic!

Our founder, Saengduean Lek Chailert will be live tomorrow (1/7/20) at 5.30pm in Thailand / 11.30am UK / 6.30am EDT with the team from National Geographic.

Please join us on the National Geographic’s Instagram page to meet our rescued herd and hear Lek talking all things elephant!

We hope you can join us!

📸 Kwaku Alston Photography, Inc.

24/06/2020

Free audio download for kids!

An important message to teach your children: "We are all kin under skin, fin , feather, and fur." The Kerulos Center for Nonviolence conveys this important message in a new free illustrated audiobook for children about the lives of two young elephants. Download "The Elephant Letters: The Story of Billy and Kani" here: https://kerulos.org/ele-letters/
You can also find a companion Study Guide with Activities for your child to further explore elephants and what they can teach us here:https://secureservercdn.net/45.40.146.28/77a.b64.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/The-Elephant-Letters-Companion-Study-Questions-and-Activities.pdf

The Kerulos Center is a friend of The Safina Center. The Kerulos Center's work with elephants planted a seed in my mind that morphed into the basis for my book BECOMING WILD.

18/06/2020

Lek S Chailert is the most genuine, generous, inspiring person I have ever met.

http://www.saveelephant.org/how-you-can-help/ "She is known as the Elephant Whisperer of Chiang Mai. Her relationship with these gentle animals prove that lo...

16/06/2020

On the Navajo reservation, which covers more than 27,000 square miles in Arizona, Utah and New Mexico, 76% of households already have trouble affording enough healthy food, and the nearest grocery store is often hours away. COVID-related restrictions have further curtailed access to food supplies.

Clean water for basic sanitary measures like hand-washing is also scarce. Native Americans are 19 times more likely to lack indoor plumbing than whites in the U.S. Nearly one-third of Navajo households lack access to running water.

Native American communities face structural and historical obstacles related to settler colonial legacies that make it hard for them to counter the pandemic, even by drawing on innovative indigenous survival strategies.

14/06/2020

Primatologist calls for overhaul of food habits to prevent a future pandemic

14/06/2020

Poaching of the big cats is on the rise, and a new study links their slaughter to corruption as well as investment from Chinese companies.

14/06/2020

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Sponsor an Asian elephant for a year!

Elephant rescue, where you can sponsor an Elephant to help keep them in their natural habitat while supporting the local farmers and local communities

08/06/2020

THE FUTURE OF SEVEN ELEPHANTS IS IN YOUR HANDS!We have an incredible opportunity to free 7 elephants from a life of servitude at an elephant riding camp, and bring them into freedom at Elephant Nature Park.We are in a race against time as Lek Chailert has been working tirelessly to negotiate their r...

08/06/2020

Along many tropical shorelines, swampy mangrove forests create habitat for fish and buffer the impact of heavy waves. "Mangroves reduce the effects of climate change, protecting coastlines against erosion and rising sea levels and hurricanes or storm surge events," said Alfredo Quarto, cofounder of....

08/06/2020

Clearly no regard for our planet.

By Jake JohnsonIn a move that environmentalists warned could further imperil hundreds of endangered species and a protected habitat for the sake of profit, President Donald Trump on Friday signed a proclamation rolling back an Obama-era order and opening nearly 5,000 square miles off the coast of Ne...

08/06/2020

It's World Oceans Day!

08/06/2020

As vegans, it is our duty to support the Black community.

07/06/2020

I scream, you scream, we all scream for nice cream.

07/06/2020

Tourist trails helped push elephants to their deaths in Thailand’s oldest nature preserve. The coronavirus lockdown is allowing them to roam freely again.

06/06/2020

Now, if only it was vegan, too!

Leave it to Ben & Jerry’s to make political activism delicious. The Vermont-based ice cream company announced on Tuesday that they’re launching a brand new…

05/06/2020

Snacks, vegan cosmetics, and even baked goods delivered to your door! Support these 11 Black-owned vegan businesses that ship their products nationwide.

05/06/2020

Birds are an incredibly important part of biodiversity and ecosystems across the world.

It’s time for Congress to respond to this attack on America’s birds.

04/06/2020

Species are disappearing at a much faster rate than previously expected.

The sixth mass extinction is here, and it's speeding up. A new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that 515 land animals are now on the brink of extinction. That's slightly less than the at least 543 species that disappeared last century, but these endangered species a...

03/06/2020

Former President Barack Obama will address the nation on Wednesday afternoon at 5 PM ET to discuss the killing of George Floyd and the protests that have taken over the nation. The broadcast will be part of a town hall, and will be live-streamed on his official website. “It will be part of the for...

02/06/2020

Sending love and light to Saza 💜🐘

30/05/2020

Hooray!!!

Maesa Elephant Park in Thailand has decided that, following the coronavirus pandemic, its elephants will no longer give rides to tourists.

29/05/2020

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As the official U.S. death toll from COVID-19 is set to top 100,000 this week, rates of child hunger are soaring across the United States. Despite the surge, a federal program to feed schoolchildren who’ve been cut off from school meals during the pandemic has reached only a small fraction of the ...

26/05/2020

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26/05/2020

Until recently, the faux-meat options — plant-based alternatives designed to replicate the flavor, texture and appearance of meat — have been abysmal. All that changed when two companies, Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods, introduced a new generation of vegan meat substitutes developed with tens of millions of dollars of funding and years of scientific research.
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You may have tried restaurant versions, but making them at home is another matter. J. Kenji López-Alt has tested them and offers practical advice.

26/05/2020

"...researchers examined dozens of birds of prey, including hawks, ospreys and owls retrieved from the Audubon Center for Birds of Prey in Florida. From the 63 birds examined, representing eight different species, all were found to have microplastics in their GI tract, according to the study."

The gruesome images of whales and deer dying after mistaking plastic for food has helped put into perspective just how severe the plastic waste crisis is. Now, a new study finds that it is not just land and sea animals eating our plastic trash. It turns out that birds are eating hundreds of bits of....

26/05/2020

The WHO decision followed the release of a Lancet study Friday that found that COVID-19 patients who took the drug were more likely to die or develop heart problems.

The World Health Organization (WHO) said it was suspending its trial of hydroxychloroquine, an anti-malarial drug that has been championed by Trump as a treatment for the new coronavirus. The WHO decision followed the release of a Lancet study that found that COVID-19 patients who took the drug were...

20/05/2020

Home baristas have made soy, oat and almond milk hard to find in stores. You can make them in your kitchen, and cut your carbon footprint at the same time.

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