YOU can make a difference

Each year at least 33,000 elephants are killed for their Ivory. 

The population of African elephants alone has been cut in half over the last decade due to poaching. Poachers tear the tusks from the elephants (sometimes while the elephant is still breathing) and leave them there defenseless and rotting. Here's a sobering statistic: as much as 70 percent of the illegal ivory heads to China, where a pound of Ivory can be sold for as much as $1,000. "The demand for ivory has surged to the point that the tusks of a single adult elephant can be worth more than 10 times the average annual income in many African countries" says source.

But YOU can make a difference...

Heres how: 

You can help save elephants by contributing to the Elephant Crisis Fund. The fund, a joint initiative between Save the Elephants and Wildlife Conservation Network, addresses the current poaching crisis by funding projects around the world that take action to stop poaching, thwart trafficking, and end demand for Ivory. 100% of your donations to the Elephant Crisis Fund will go directly to funding anti-poaching, anti-trafficking and demand reduction actions on the ground. The impact of your donations will be doubled with a dollar for dollar match up to $500,000.

To donate, visit : http://savetheelephants.org/donate/