Bars Quote by Ofir Drori

Our elephants are under siege because of an illegal international market that has driven ivory prices in the region up significantly. I call upon…

— Ali Bongo Ondimba

We are having to pull money into site-level protection for elephants just to keep them alive. But there isn't enough money to go around.…

— Allen Crawford

“Were we to be engaged in a war . . we should become absolutely destitute of elephants. . .What would our children do without…

— Paul Chambers

Elephants seek food elsewhere if their route is blocked, and raiding crops and grain stores brings them into conflict with people, often resulting in…

— Mark Shand

Illegal killings of elephants are being linked to organized crime and the funding of armed militia groups. Many consumers in Asia do not realize…

— Li Bingbing

“When elephants fight, the grass suffers.”

— Nnedi Okorafor

Elephants are living treasures. Nature's gardeners. Nature's great teachers. Tragically some people don't give a damn. They prefer the dead treasure to the living…

— Virginia McKenna

Elephants suffer from too much patience. Their exhibitions of it may seem superb,-such power and such restraint, combined, are noble,-but a quality carried to…

— Clarence Day

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

Surrounded by a burgeoning human population, Asian elephants have to contend with the spread of settlements and farming, and the demands of rapidly developing…

— Mark Shand

Elephants are not human, of course. They are something much more ancient and primordial, living on a different plane of existence. Long before we…

— Alex Shoumatoff

When elephants fight, ants get killed.

— Ritu Ghatourey