Celebrate Earth Day With Baby Elephants

Every daytime , poachers vote out 96 elephants in Africa . That ’s something to keep in mind today , the forty-fifth Earth Day . The solemnization was first nominate in 1969 at a UNESCO conference as a day to recognize the environment and the hope for world ataraxis .

In pureness of this year ’s Earth Day , the 96 Elephants Campaign , together with the Wildlife Conservation Society , put together 96 seconds worth of baby elephant videos . But these are n’t just any infant elephant . The footage includes five orphaned juveniles from Nairobi ’s David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust Elephant & Rhino Orphanage . Their parent were film by off-white poacher . Other footage of wild elephant is from Kenya ’s Mpala Research Centre .

Header : Mabu , a male African elephant at the Reid Park Zoo . ( Copyright Jessie Greger , used with permission . )