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🐘 Elephanatics December Newsletter 🎁

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Tis the Season!🎄

“Let us strive to learn from the past
Dare to live in the present
And have the courage to plan for the future!” 

As we venture into the Christmas Season we have some good news we want to share with you!

📢 Victory for Responsible Conservation: Rewilding Guidelines Published!

We are thrilled to celebrate a massive achievement led by our Director, René Beyers, at the IUCN World Conservation Congress. After dedicated work and advocacy, the crucial Rewilding Guidelines have been officially published! These guidelines are vital for ensuring that conservation and reintroduction efforts are ethical, responsible, and effective, setting a high standard for global biodiversity initiatives. René’s hard work has cemented Elephanatics’ leadership in science-based conservation policy.

📝 A Voice for Elephants at CITES-CoP20

Some great news coming out of the CITES-CoP20 being held in Uzbekistan right now!  CITES-CoP20  delivered a crucial victory for wildlife! Elephanatics, with our coalition partners, successfully urged the Canadian delegation to oppose Proposals 13 and 14, which sought to re-open commercial ivory trade. Critically, the strong international stance was maintained, blocking all attempts, including Namibia’s proposal 13, to reopen the international ivory and rhino horn trade. This is great news for elephants! 🐘:) 

✨ Good News: Amboseli’s Elephants are Thriving!

We were delighted by the recent reports confirming a significant increase in the elephant population in Kenya’s Amboseli National Park! This positive trend is a beacon of hope and a testament to the hard work of conservation partners, rangers, and local communities who protect this vital ecosystem. Every successful breeding season and every protected herd reinforces the mission we all share.

📚 New Lesson Plan for Educators!

We are excited to announce the launch of a new educational resource for teachers and educators: “Giants and Guardians: A Global Conservation Comparison.” This lesson plan is designed for Grades 6-8 and compares elephant conservation challenges in Africa with parallel issues facing iconic wildlife in Canada and the United States. We encourage all educators to review this resource and bring global conservation awareness into the classroom! Find all our lesson plans at elephanatics.org/education 

🎁 Shop & Save an Elephant This Season!

As you begin your holiday shopping, remember that you can support Elephanatics without spending an extra dime!

Visit our Teespring line today and purchase apparel, mugs, and more. 100% of every sale goes directly back to our conservation, education, and action initiatives, helping us fund the critical work you read about above.

Thank you for your continued support and passion for elephants. Wishing you all a safe start to December filled with laughter and joy for the festive season, and may the New Year bring continued success and prosperity for you all!

“Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.” Charles Dickens 

The Elephanatics Team 🎁🎄

 

Happy Holidays from Elephanatics!

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Another year over and what have we done?

In the words of Charles Dickens;

“I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round…as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time.”

All year long elephant conservation organizations work compassionately and conscientiously to make the world a better place for elephants – proving that, with consistent efforts, the essence of the holiday spirit is manifested through their accomplishments. The whole planet reaps the benefit of natures tending and the charitable giving of those who have supported these efforts. For this, we are extremely grateful and thankful to all of you who have been part of our success in reaching our goals to broaden our outreach in education and advocacy awareness campaigns for elephants during the year.

Throughout 2024 there has been several positive conservation efforts made globally by organizations to increase protection for elephants. Some include:

  • Strengthened Anti-Poaching efforts
  • Habitat Protection and Restoration efforts
  • Collaboration with other conservation organizations
  • Community building efforts
  • Research and Monitoring
  • Technology and Innovation – to include the use of drones as a major asset to help protect and monitor elephants
  • Education outreach
  • Policy advocacy

Elephanatics has been proactive at building out our education efforts by collaborating with our partner organization, Mara Elephant Project, in Kenya. We are very excited about this partnership! We offer a variety of FREE educational resources for teachers, educators and students to utilize. Education is key to understanding the problems elephants encounter on a daily basis from poaching, human-elephant conflict and habitat loss, to creating co-existence strategies to counter these issues. The benefits of collaborating with an organization that deals with these concerns is paramount to building capacity and resilience against further threats to elephants and all wildlife. We also continue to support organizations and policymakers that aim to strengthen the international legal framework to prevent and combat wildlife trafficking.

Our wish for you this holiday season is to find peace in the least expected places, use that peace to bring calm to others, and to forge ahead into 2025 with renewed ambitions and hopes.

We thank you for your continued support!

Best Wishes,

The Elephanatics Team

Holiday Greetings From Elephanatics

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This year has proven to be our best yet with the historic ban of elephant ivory and rhinoceros horn being passed in Canada. We all worked very hard to make this happen and we couldn’t have done it without your huge support. Our #IvoryFreeCanada campaign and petition set the stage for success! We thank you!

We look forward to celebrating further accomplishments in the future for elephants.

Wishing you all the very best for the holiday season!

The Elephanatics Team

Elephanatics December Newsletter

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Dreams can come true!

Good News to Celebrate this Holiday Season!

On November 20th , 2023 the Canadian Government passed the ban on domestic trade in elephant ivory and rhino horn, as well as the import of hunting trophies containing these parts. The landmark measures fulfill a 2021 Ministerial mandate and are a critical step in protecting these iconic species. Canada now joins the UK, France, China, the Netherlands, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, Belgium, Luxembourg, the EU, and nearly every state in the United States who has closed or has severe restrictions on their ivory markets.

Elephanatics created the Ivory-Free Canada campaign then joined by Humane Society International Canada, Rhino and Elephant Defenders, World Elephant Day and the Jane Goodall Institute of Canada, to form the Ivory Free Canada coalition. Together, we were relentless in our mission to get this ban passed!

Fran Duthie, Elephanatics founder and President says “The team at Elephanatics is thrilled that regulations to ban the elephant ivory and rhino horn trade, along with the import of trophy hunts and their parts, are to be enacted by the Canadian Government. We would like to thank all our supporters, our coalition partners, conservationists, scientists, politicians, volunteers, journalists, and people who worked tirelessly to make this happen. From the petition created by the Ivory Free Canada coalition that reached over 700,000 signatures, showing overwhelming support to save elephants and rhinos, to endless advocacy, to the collaboration of like minds working together to save a species, our mission has come to fruition. It is a time to be grateful and to celebrate this grand achievement. We did it!” Read more here.

This holiday season, please consider making a donation to the Fran Duthie African Elephant scholarship, distributed by Mara Elephant Project, to create more opportunities for Kenyan students pursuing a career in conservation. To learn more, click here. To donate, click here.

The #HolidaysAreComing! Get your 20% discount on ALL our merchandise until Dec 25th. Whether it’s for the holiday season or another celebration, we have a gift for you. Your purchase goes towards the conservation of saving elephants and wildlife in Africa.

Thanks again for your support. Together we have made a vital difference for elephants and rhinos and together we can continue to ensure that they have a bright future ahead.

Wishing you and yours all the very best for a happy, healthy, prosperous, holiday season and New Year ahead.

The Elephanatics Team