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I was pretty shocked to learn that as many as 30,000 elephants are being killed every year to fuel the ivory trade, despite an…

— Ian Somerhalder

“Of all African animals, the elephant is the most difficult for man to live with, yet its passing - if this must come -…

— Peter Matthiessen

Earlier, 100,000 elephants lived in Kenya and we didn't have any noteworthy problem with it. The problem that we have is not that there…

— Richard Leakey

It may surprise people to learn that one elephant is killed every 15 minutes for its ivory.

— Li Bingbing

“matriarch is the largest, often with the heaviest tusks – and when matriarchs are killed, they are not the only casualties. You have to…

— Jodi Picoult

It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.

— Vin Diesel

The threat of extinction is more real than many realise. And the damage done to elephants directly leads to destruction of the ecosystem.

— Li Bingbing

The elephants were being slaughtered in masses. Some were even killed in the vicinity of big tourist hotels.

— Richard Leakey

Elephant populations in India and also in the whole of Asia are under severe stress. The captive ones are rendered jobless due to changes…

— Mark Shand

“When poachers target the matriarchs or older females—as they often do, because older elephants usually have larger tusks—they also destroy that lifetime of learning…

— Virginia Morell

Elephants can live to an age of up to 70 or 80 years and they have a good memory. It could be they come…

— Richard Leakey

The problem is that during the 1980s, a decade of heavy poaching, the elephants retreated to safer areas. And now people have moved into…

— Richard Leakey