Nelson Mandela

How a Birthday Party Can Change the World

Elisabeth and her twin brother Sam were turning 7 years old and they had some big plans on how to celebrate this special birthday: to adopt an elephant! The twins set out to invite their…
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Please, Don’t Laugh

Every day, on average 96 elephants are killed for their tusks. In the last ten years, more than 1,000 wildlife rangers have been killed in the line of duty protecting Africa's heritage. Ivory is currently…
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Mandela & The Elephant

Every 15 minutes, an elephant is killed for its ivory. This amounts to 96 elephants per day, thousands upon thousands per year (in 2011, record numbers for elephant poaching were reached at 22,000 elephants in…
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Extinction, Art & The Ivory Crush

The Western Black Rhino (pictured below from CNN) was last seen in 2006. This subspecies of the black rhino is native to Africa and has been declared by IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature…
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