2023 "EleFootprints" Online Auction
Sat, Aug 12
|Virtual Event
In collaboration with The Elephant Initiative, Save the Strays International and private citizens, VFAE launched the "EleFootprints" online auction on World Elephant Day 2023 to raise funds for VFAE projects in Odisha. The auction raised almost $8,000, which was allocated to rewilding forest patche
Time & Location
Aug 12, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM
Virtual Event
About the event
Asian elephants are an endangered species with only around 40,000 Asian elephants left on the planet, 27,000 of them in India - 60% of the world's Asian elephant population. However, the burgeoning human population, rampant development and climate change are all changing the Indian landscape dramatically.
Elephants have already lost 80% of their habitats to reckless development such as mining, electrocution, railways, roadways, and agriculture. Forest fires are also on the rise, most of them set off by arsonists and poachers to lure the wildlife and trap them. In the last ten years almost 1,200 elephants have been killed across India. And in the last three years 245 of them have been killed in the central state of Odisha state where mining is rampant.
Every penny raised during this fundraiser will serve to restore core elephant habitats in the central state of Odisha. VFAE is planting elephant friendly saplings and…
