World Elephant Day, observed on August 12, is one way of recognising the importance of elephants. The day also focuses on the protection of giant beings.
World Elephant Day: Since 2012, August 12 has been celebrated as World Elephant Day. It s a day to highlight the threats that elephants face today and emphasize the need to safeguard the gentle giants and save the earth s ecosystem.
The reason for the rising conflict is interruption in elephant corridors and displacement of elephants from their habitats in Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh.
India boasts of close to 30,000 tuskers but even as there are efforts being made to conserve them, man-elephant conflict seems to be a cause for concern. Mid-day Online spoke to Patricia Sims, founder of World Elephant Society, to understand how conservation has changed in the last 10 years since she first instituted the day for elephants