Elephants Quote by Yaya Toure

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

I saw firsthand the devastating consequences of poaching. I saw elephants with ivory hacked from their faces and the lengths private parks go to…

— Ben Fogle

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

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

I saw a dead elephant in one of Kenya's natural reserves. Around her were footprints of her baby elephant. This was just so sad,…

— Li Bingbing

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

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

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

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

— Peter Matthiessen

“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

You know, at times like this one feels, well, perhaps extinct animals should be left extinct.

— Michael Crichton

“We are responsible for the problem and we must be held responsible for the solution. It will indeed be a sad indictment on our…

— Brian Connell