Elephant Care International Conservation Campaign

Save Money, Elephants, and Your Environment!    You are literate and sitting at a computer.  It is likely that you are a privileged person lucky enough to have been born in a relatively wealthy country.  You are part of the consuming world.  If instead, you were born in rural "elephant country" in either Southeast Asia or Africa, you are more likely to be impoverished, living a subsistence lifestyle, and may have never seen a computer. 

Think for a minute (a brief PDF on what you can do to save elephants—and our Earth).

Just since 1950, humans have consumed more resources than all of the people combined who lived on earth before us.  It is not the rural villager that is consuming so much, it is those of us in the wealthy nations.  Consumers must realize that their everyday actions do affect elephants and the rural villagers that live near elephants.  As consumers buy wood and wood products like paper, we contribute to the demise of forests that have served as elephant habitat for thousands of years. These displaced elephants are then forced to raid villagers' farms to survive.  Here are a few quick and easy ways to save money and paper (and thus trees>forests>watersheds>elephants).

If you drive a gas-guzzler, the fuel you buy may have originated in an oilfield in Indonesia that was formerly the habitat of elephants.  Our daily choices do affect the environment in ways many of us do not adequately consider.

So please, before you make that next consumer decision, think about the consequences.  Do you really need a bigger car...house...?   Do you really need a newspaper every day?  Do you really need a powerboat, jetski, or snowmobile?  If it is adventure you seek, try sailing, kite-surfing, or cross-country skiing, all more challenging, less expensive, and non-gas consuming.  Are you really that much happier with each new purchase, or are you falsely pursuing happiness by spending more? 

Instead, consider trading down, living simpler, foregoing luxury purchases and instead, give a little to your favorite charity, or volunteer your time.  Try it!