This Endangered Species Day, we celebrate you, and the lifesaving difference you make each and every day as an ally for wildlife.
Endangered species around the globe are facing enormous challenges. Poaching, habitat loss, wildfires, flooding, drought, and illegal trafficking are taking a toll on wildlife worldwide—including elephants.
Over the last century, African elephant populations have plummeted. And this past March, the urgent need to protect Earth’s largest land animals increased even more when the African elephant—previously considered a single, vulnerable species—was elevated in status and classified as two separate species for the first time by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The now critically endangered African forest elephant and endangered African savanna elephants both need our help and this monumental decision reminds us all of the immense pressures facing these gentle giants.
Fortunately, African elephants have hope in allies like you. Your support and generosity fuels community-led conservation efforts to rescue, rehabilitate, and reintroduce orphaned elephant calves in northern Kenya, while protecting elephant families across the savanna through aerial surveillance and anti-poaching patrols.
