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Communication and the interests of elephants

Category: 4. Welfare News, Elephant Photos, Elephants in captivity | Date: Feb 07 2008 | By: admin

We invite you to visit the elephant elephant welfare section of ElephantVoices, which has been reorganized and improved over the last couple of weeks; new expansions will be uploaded over the course of the next few months.

Some may wonder what our elephant welfare work has to do with elephant communication or with elephant conservation, for that matter. We see this part of our work as an important application of our many years of study of elephant behavior. Decades of knowledge is useful for the advancement of science, yes, but we also want to ensure a better future for elephants, as individuals and as a species. To do that we need to educate people, to translate all the reams of data into something that the public can digest, be moved by and put into action. As acknowledged experts in the field we feel a need to speak out on their behalf.
Amboseli elephants on clear course
Joyce returned from a five day trip to California on Tuesday, where she was meeting with donors and discussing a range of captive and wild elephant welfare issues. Over the next few days she will be finalising her expert witness testimony for a legal case against Ringling Brothers for the mistreatment of elephants.

Further analysis of the material collected during our playback experiments in Amboseli in December/January is also high on our to-do list.

Cheers, Petter and Joyce

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4 Responses to “Communication and the interests of elephants”

F. J. PECHIR, on 07 Feb 2008

Thank you Petter and Joyce for your information, very interesting as always! A good news about elephant conservation in Africa is that today starts a convention in Bamako, Mali, where 17 african nations will be discussing the possible creation of a coalition of countries that presents a common front in the fight to save elephants from poaching and habitat loss. This meeting is sponsored by IFAW and I hope that at the end of this, very good news could be spected for the conservation of this magnifficent creatures!

Anita, on 07 Feb 2008

Thank you, Joyce

Sheryl, Washington, DC, on 08 Feb 2008

I love your Web site! great information. I’m going to read all of it so I can learn as much as possible about elephants. Thank you, again, for your testimony at the Ringling trial. They’ve narrowed it down to only a few elephants, but it still matters.

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THERESA SISKIND, on 08 Feb 2008

Joyce, I remember as a child, back in the sixties, going to the circus and seeing the elephants perform their tricks, like standing on a small stool. An inner voice told me then, something isn’t right here, it doesn’t look natural and I felt sorry for them, even as a youngster. First they are robbed of their family, then their freedom, and then, their dignity. How awful. Keep up the good work and thanks for providing the link, its great!

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