# @kirstenalana on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CDyquQghkNa
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/2429411-kirstenalana-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/cdb09c4f12.jpg
- **Posted:** 2020-08-12T13:55:00.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Kirsten Alana (@KirstenAlana) — https://gondola.cc/KirstenAlana

## Caption

It’s #worldelephantday and every year now, on this day, I’m taken back to the extraordinary experience I had in Kenya in 2017 helping to bring awareness to the important work of saving the African 🐘 that the orgs >> tagged in these photos << are doing. 
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Before that trip I had no idea the rates at which elephants are hunted and slaughtered for the ivory in their tusks. How in danger these majestic, gentle giants are from humans. Or how smart and empathetic they are. How much their society depends on their matriarchs. How they sometimes travel thousands of miles to mourn their dead in the same spot one passes away. How they never forget.
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I’ve wrote an extensive post about it on my blog and interviewed Paula Kahumbu for a video that’s on my YouTube if you’d like to hear her. She’s far more eloquent than I could ever be. I’ll link to both in Stories. She and the women and men of Amboseli have dedicated their lives to saving elephants. Even naming every elephant in the park. The least I can do is talk about that, today. And if you have money to give, please consider donating. The pandemic has made it harder than ever to keep elephants safe in Africa. But support helps keep it possible. And it also helps ensure Kenyan’s can make a living not from exploiting wildlife or continuing to allow poaching, but instead protecting the 🐘 and other wild animals. ❤️
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#handsoffourelephants #dontletthemdisappear #amboselinationalpark #amboselitrust #savetheelephants #savetheelephants🐘 #savetheelephants🐘❤️🐘 #savetheelephantday

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dontletthemdisappear, handsoffourelephants, amboselinationalpark, savetheelephantday, savetheelephants, amboselitrust, worldelephantday

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