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Protect the Forest Elephants -- Help Them be Heard!

Target: You, your friends and family!
Sponsored by: The Elephant Listening Project at the Cornell Lab

Only in the rainforests of Central Africa do elephants still move unrestricted, their rumbling calls connecting family members across miles of forest. These are forest elephants -- unique and endangered. We know relatively little about them, and yet these socially complex and intelligent giants are slaughtered for ivory and hunted for bushmeat, and their forest homes are increasingly affected by logging, mining, and oil drilling.

Ignorance adds to their peril because many people don't really understand how these elephants are different. Policy decisions are made with little weight given to conditions affecting forest elephants, partly because our knowledge is sketchy.

Using high-tech methods, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Elephant Listening Project eavesdrops on the language that these elephants use to talk to one another. This provides a fact-based, scientific approach to helping these endangered elephants and stopping poachers from accessing the refuges.

Join our efforts by learning more about forest elephants and sharing your interest with friends.

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I pledge to learn more about the forest elephants of Central Africa (Loxodonta africana cyclotis) and share what I learn with other caring and concerned people.

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8:41 am PST, Feb 9, Lisa R, Germany

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6:16 pm PST, Feb 7, Valentina B, Italy

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3:44 am PST, Feb 5, Antonio Amador, Portugal

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4:45 pm PST, Feb 2, Maribel Herrada, Illinois
It is important to remember that we are not the only living species in the world. We are part of the Animalia Kingdom just as they are and the ones that are capable of ensuring the survival of all >> so we need to do all that we can before we kill off anymore animals to extinction.

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3:53 pm PST, Feb 2, Mijanou Bauchau, California

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12:36 pm PST, Feb 1, Karla Lara, Mexico

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8:23 am PST, Jan 30, Em Walder, Canada
I have spent my entire life learing about animals that can no longer be found in nature because of people. We have only one choice: act. How will you explain to your children or grandchildren why you choose to do nothing?

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7:00 am PST, Jan 29, Alexandra Peridznjak, Ukraine

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9:38 pm PST, Jan 28, Susel Perez, Iowa

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12:04 pm PST, Jan 27, Laura Ball, West Virginia
Because we could learn alot from elephants.

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We can learn a lot from the way elephants live. They help and care about each other.

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10:31 pm PST, Jan 5, ANNA VIRGINI, Canada
To save them!

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4:42 pm PST, Jan 4, Latosha Jack, Louisiana
So I can learn how to help them

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3:47 pm PST, Jan 4, Randy Anderson, Tennessee

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1:13 pm PST, Jan 4, Laura Carpenter, North Carolina
We know relatively little about them, and yet these socially complex and intelligent giants are slaughtered for ivory and hunted for bushmeat, and their forest homes are increasingly affected by logging, mining, and oil drilling

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12:34 pm PST, Jan 4, Julia Maeder, Germany

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