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Helen H. Richardson
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The Denver Zoo helped to celebrate resident Asian elephants and elephants all over the world and educate people at the zoo for World Elephant Day. Activities included elephant training demonstrations, zookeeper talks, hands-on activities. While African elephants are endangered Asian elephants are even more endangered with only 30,000 of them left in the wild.

The killing of elephants for their ivory tusks is one of the biggest reason for the loss but legal and illegal land clearing, especially for oil palm plantations, is fragmenting critically endangered elephants’ habitat in Asian countries. Palm oil — the basis of products such as cosmetics and shampoos, processed foods and biodiesel — is versatile and has a long shelf life, but oil palm plantations gobble up forests and destroy habitat for elephants, orangutans and other endangered animals.

World Elephant Day is an international annual event on Aug. 12, dedicated to the preservation and protection of the world’s elephants.

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