WORLD ELEPHANT DAY-AUGUST-12

 

WORLD ELEPHANT DAY-AUGUST-12

World Elephant Day 2026 is being observed today, on August 12, bringing attention to the conservation and protection of elephants across the world. The annual observance highlights the threats faced by African and Asian elephants and encourages people to learn more about these animals, support conservation efforts and promote their protection in the wild and in responsible care.The message “Bringing the world together to help elephants." The observance focuses on raising awareness about the challenges facing elephants, including habitat loss, poaching, human-elephant conflict and mistreatment in captivity.The day is marked every year to create awareness about the wild beast so that their illegal hunting and poaching can be curtailed and completely banned. The world elephant society was founded in November 2015 to initiate fervent support to this cause and create mass awareness for an effective elephant conservation worldwide.

World Elephant Day is a podium for groups and individuals to come together and speak out about problems that are being faced for conservation of elephants’ world over. Its unbiased approach visualization that enables and supports all organizations and individuals to organize campaigns under the World Elephant Day banner, enabling everyone to work together to address this crucial global issue that necessitates collaboration across national boundaries and political divides. This powerful, cooperative global opinion offers individuals, decision-makers, legislators, and governments resources to develop and support conservation resolutions that will make the world a safe place for elephants, animals, and habitats for future generations to appreciate.

World Elephant Day is an international initiative co-founded by the Elephant Reintroduction Foundation and Patrica Sims, founder of the world elephant society which is a charitable organization that helps to spread awareness about the conservation of elephants around the world. The first international Elephant Day was celebrated on 12th August 2012 and thereafter this day is dedicated to the cause of elephant conservation and their protection. This day makes us know and generates a mass awareness that people shoulder the responsibility to protect the elephants by curtailing the illegal hunting, poaching, and trading of tusks and develop better treatment facilities for the captive elephants. Elephants play a crucial role as ecosystem engineers, maintaining mineral-rich clearings in the forest, on which many other species depend on, and providing a way for important soil nutrients to be spread around at a continental scale. As seed dispersers, they also help maintain the largest tree species, which happen to be the most important for carbon sequestration. World Elephant Day is an annual international observance dedicated to raising awareness about the conservation and protection of elephants.The day brings attention to the challenges faced by both African and Asian elephants and encourages individuals, organisations and governments to support measures that protect elephant populations and their habitats.The observance also encourages people to understand elephants beyond their cultural and symbolic importance. Elephants are highly social animals and have complex communication and family structures. They also play important roles in their ecosystems. ലോകത്തെ ആനകളുടെ സംരക്ഷണത്തിനും പരിപാലനത്തിനുമായി സമർപ്പിച്ചിരിക്കുന്ന ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 12 ന് നടക്കുന്ന അന്താരാഷ്ട്ര വാർഷിക പരിപാടിയാണ് ലോക ആനദിനം 2011-ൽ കനേഡിയൻ ചലച്ചിത്ര നിർമാതാക്കളായ പട്രീഷ്യ സിംസ്, കാനസ്വെസ്റ്റ് പിക്ചേഴ്സിന്റെ മൈക്കൽ ക്ലാർക്ക്, തായ്‌ലാൻഡിലെ എലിഫന്റ് റീഇൻട്രഡക്ഷൻ ഫൗണ്ടേഷൻ സെക്രട്ടറി ജനറൽ കെ.എസ്. ദർദരാനന്ദ എന്നിവർ ചേർന്ന് ആവിഷ്കരിച്ചതാണ് ലോക ആനദിനം. ആനകളുടെ ദുരവസ്ഥ ശ്രദ്ധയിൽപ്പെടുത്തുന്നതിനായി 2012 ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 12-നാണ് ലോക ആനദിനം ആരംഭിച്ചത്. ആവാസകേന്ദ്രങ്ങളുടെ നാശവും ആനക്കൊമ്പിനായുള്ള വേട്ടയാടലും മനുഷ്യന്റെ ചൂഷണവും കടന്നുകയറ്റങ്ങളുമെല്ലാം ആനകളുടെ ജീവന് ഭീഷണി ആയിത്തീർന്നു. പട്രീഷ്യ സിംസും എലിഫന്റ് റീഇൻട്രഡക്ഷൻ ഫൗണ്ടേഷനും ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 12-ന് ഇത് ഔദ്യോഗികമായി പ്രഖ്യാപിക്കുകയുംചെയ്തു. ഇപ്പോൾ ഈ ദിനാചരണത്തിന് 65-ലധികം വന്യജീവി സംഘടനകളുടെയും ലോകമെമ്പാടുമുള്ള രാജ്യങ്ങളിലെ നിരവധി വ്യക്തികളുടെയും പിന്തുണയുണ്ട്

Prof. John Kurakar