I spotted a herd of elephants around Spitalfields, London, this weekend.
It turns out they’re a part of the Herd of Hope, which as been migrating around London over recent years. There’s an adult mother elephant and a twenty orphaned ele-kids.
Each youngster represents a real-world herd of elephants that the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust has helped survive in a world where other groups of humans are working against the ability of elephants to thrive.
Their website lists 8 challenges that us often-thoughtless humans create for the ever-decreasing number of elephants that have so far survived amongst other endangered species.
Sometimes this is as direct as killing these animals for their tusks . Poaching is the leading threat to elephants, and for that matter all endangered large mammals. But other times we’re talking about hazards further down the causal chain such as the impact of what we’re doing to the climate on the elephants' food, water and natural habitat.
