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Protect African Elephants' Food Sources
Target: Hon. Najib Balala, Minister of Tourism and Wildlife, Kenya
Sponsored by: Care2
Sponsored by: Care2
African elephants need grass to survive - grass that grows mainly during the wet seasons. And new research on elephants in Kenya's Samburu and Buffalo Springs national reserves is showing that a global warming-led decrease in the wet season is posing a grave threat to elephant reproduction.
Researchers have tracked elephants' diets for six years, and results show that the changing climate in Kenya is leading to less and less grass that they need for their nutrition. And if the female elephants cannot bulk up enough, they cannot manage their 22-month pregnancies and continue the reproductive cycle.
Tell Kenya's Minister of Tourism and Wildlife: The health and diet of African elephants is important! Take heed of conservation biologists' research and address the problems of adequate nutrition before these magnificent creatures are even more endangered.
Researchers have tracked elephants' diets for six years, and results show that the changing climate in Kenya is leading to less and less grass that they need for their nutrition. And if the female elephants cannot bulk up enough, they cannot manage their 22-month pregnancies and continue the reproductive cycle.
Tell Kenya's Minister of Tourism and Wildlife: The health and diet of African elephants is important! Take heed of conservation biologists' research and address the problems of adequate nutrition before these magnificent creatures are even more endangered.
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I love animals! :-)
I love animals! :-)
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Elephants, especially the female, need their nutrition.
Elephants, especially the female, need their nutrition.
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Barth Christelle, France
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Rosemary Rannes, New Hampshire
Dear Hon. Balala, Please do everything in your power to protect the Elephants and "Take heed of conservation biologists' research and address the problems of adequate nutrition before these magnificent creatures are even more endangered. " Thank you for leaving a Living Legacy.
Dear Hon. Balala, Please do everything in your power to protect the Elephants and "Take heed of conservation biologists' research and address the problems of adequate nutrition before these magnificent creatures are even more endangered. " Thank you for leaving a Living Legacy.
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Janette Collins, Australia
Kenya has been leading the way in its effort to protect the elephant and sequentially provide for its people..please continue to work with specialists to ensure the necessary habitat is available to the elephants in order for them to be healthy.
Kenya has been leading the way in its effort to protect the elephant and sequentially provide for its people..please continue to work with specialists to ensure the necessary habitat is available to the elephants in order for them to be healthy.
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Tere Magaña, Oregon
The health and diet of African elephants is important to each of us! Please help.
The health and diet of African elephants is important to each of us! Please help.
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Tamila Foster-Carter, Kansas
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Jacob Green, Arkansas
The elephants are three species of very large mammals belonging to the family Elephantidae - the only extant family belonging to the order Proboscidea. The three elephant species currently recognized by scientists are the African Bush Elephant (Loxodonta africana), the African Forest Elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis), and the Asian, or Indian, Elephant (Elephas maximus). Centuries of hunting elephants for their ivory has reduced the population of these animals. Renewed efforts at stewardship have caused a population boom, with the number of elephants in Africa alone tripling in the last decade. Elephants are the largest land animals alive today. Apart from their massive size their most striking features are a long trunk, or proboscis, a flexible nose strong enough to lift objects, their huge ivory tusks, and their large flapping ears, used to keep them cool. Bull elephants, when inclined to mate, enter a frenzied state called musth; they fight with each other for possession of the cow elephants, and become a menace to everything in their path; many humans are killed at this time. Elephants' gestation period, at 22 months, is the longest of any land mammal. At birth it is common for an elephant calf to weigh 120 kg (265 lb). An elephant may live as long as 70 years, sometimes longer. The largest elephant ever recorded (the Fenykovi elephant, now in the Smithsonian Institution) was shot in Angola in 1954. It was male and weighed about 10.7 tonnes (12 U.S. tons), with a shoulder height of 4 metres (13 feet, 2 inches).
The elephants are three species of very large mammals belonging to the family Elephantidae - the only extant family belonging to the order Proboscidea. The three elephant species currently recognized by scientists are the African Bush Elephant (Loxodonta africana), the African Forest Elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis), and the Asian, or Indian, Elephant (Elephas maximus). Centuries of hunting elephants for their ivory has reduced the population of these animals. Renewed efforts at stewardship have caused a population boom, with the number of elephants in Africa alone tripling in the last decade. Elephants are the largest land animals alive today. Apart from their massive size their most striking features are a long trunk, or proboscis, a flexible nose strong enough to lift objects, their huge ivory tusks, and their large flapping ears, used to keep them cool. Bull elephants, when inclined to mate, enter a frenzied state called musth; they fight with each other for possession of the cow elephants, and become a menace to everything in their path; many humans are killed at this time. Elephants' gestation period, at 22 months, is the longest of any land mammal. At birth it is common for an elephant calf to weigh 120 kg (265 lb). An elephant may live as long as 70 years, sometimes longer. The largest elephant ever recorded (the Fenykovi elephant, now in the Smithsonian Institution) was shot in Angola in 1954. It was male and weighed about 10.7 tonnes (12 U.S. tons), with a shoulder height of 4 metres (13 feet, 2 inches).
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thanks for helping me to sign.
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Dean Leh, M.A., M.S.Ed.
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Feed them if you have to
Feed them if you have to
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