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Welcome to ElephantVoices

Our name has a double meaning - to share what we know about elephants with you and to act as a voice for elephants.

Having studied the natural behavior of elephants in the wild over several decades, we have considerable experience contemplating what the interests of these intelligent and social beings might be. It is our hope that by sharing our knowledge with you, we can work together to ensure a kinder future for elephants.

Each one of us has a role to play in effecting change. As our burgeoning human population impacts the earth's dwindling resources, factoring in respect for the needs of other species is ever more critical. So, whether you are a scientist, a wildlife manager, an elephant handler, a politician with influence over elephant policies, an elephant enthusiast, a student working on an elephant project, or a person somewhere on the globe surfing the web, this website was written with you in mind.

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Last Updated on Monday, 08 March 2010 12:27
 

Latest updates on ElephantVoices Blog

ElephantVoices Brasil moving ahead

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Through Junia Machado and other good elephant friends in Brazil, ElephantVoices is working hard for the best interest of elephants in this progressive country. Our main objectives are To create awareness about elephant conservation and the w... Read more

General News | Friday, 11 May 2012

Joyce Poole's response to Gay Bradshaw's critique of War Elephants

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On April 22nd 2012, Gay Bradshaw posted an article in her blog in Psychology Today critiquing War Elephants and Joyce Poole's role in it. Here is Joyce's response to it. Dear Gay, I awoke this morning to an ... Read more

Media | Thursday, 26 April 2012

War Elephants premieres in the US on 22 April - on Nat Geo Wild

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The National Geographic documentary War Elephants is due to air in the US on National Geographic Wild on Sunday, 22 April 2012, at 8 p.m. ET/PT. A Nat Geo Live! premiere screening took place in Washington ... Read more

Media | Friday, 13 April 2012

ElephantVoices' lectures & events US March 2012

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ElephantVoices' Joyce and Petter will be "on the road" in the US for three weeks during March 2012, with a premiere screening of an upcoming National Geographic Wild documentary, and lectures and other events promoting elephants ... Read more

Events | Tuesday, 28 February 2012

ElephantVoices' Mara field visit February 2012

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Joyce is from 19th February and for a 10 day period in Maasai Mara, meeting up with and training some of the people that are contributing elephant observations to the Elephant Partners initiative. On this page ... Read more

Field news | Sunday, 19 February 2012

ElephantVoices Year End eNewsletter 2011

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Dear Friends of Elephants, ElephantVoices has had another busy and eventful year and we look toward 2012 with eager anticipation and in the hope that you and others will help us to maintain and strengthen our voice! Here ... Read more

eNewsletters | Sunday, 18 December 2011

ElephantVoices launches Sanctuary Principles

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In the spirit of The Elephant Charter, and global recognition of the need for elephant sanctuary, ElephantVoices has developed a short document describing our perspective on "sanctuary" for elephants, and the overall principles we believe such ... Read more

Welfare | Tuesday, 13 December 2011

Kerstin Bucher names Mara elephant Sian

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Kerstin Bucher is one of the first people to name a Mara elephant and, thereby, also supporting this ElephantVoices initiative in the world renown Maasai Mara. Kerstin lives in Germany, and has visited Kenya several times. We ... Read more

Conservation | Tuesday, 13 December 2011

ElephantVoices' Mara field trip October/November 2011

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Petter and I just returned from a fabulous field trip in and around the Maasai Mara. We had a wonderful time and we learned a lot, too! We had far too little time just being with ... Read more

Field news | Sunday, 4 December 2011

Toronto did the right thing - for Toka, Thika & Iringa

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We applaud the decision by the Toronto City Council to send Toka, Iringa and Thika to PAWS! Having observed the elephants at PAWS and seen the positive changes in individuals who have been placed there, we ... Read more

Zoos | Friday, 25 November 2011

Learn more about elephants "body language"

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Over many years of studying animals ethologists learn to read the faces and postures of their subjects through a combination of experience and intuition. We unconsciously use this information whenever we're with elephants without really t... Read more

Education | Thursday, 8 September 2011

Gorongosa's elephants getting to know Joyce

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More than 2,000 elephants in Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique, were slaughtered during the civil war between 1977 and 1992. Around 5% of the population made it through - the number has since increased to between 300-400. ... Read more

General News | Thursday, 1 September 2011

ElephantVoices eNewsletter August 2011

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Dear Friends of Elephants, In this issue of our eNewsletter we share with you some of our achievements and activities of recent months. Since the scope of our little organization involves everything from scientific research, elephant conservation ... Read more

eNewsletters | Wednesday, 24 August 2011

Will new ivory burning help to stop the killing of elephants?

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On Wednesday 20th July 2011, almost five tonnes of contraband ivory will be burned during a ceremony at Kenya Wildlife Service's Manyani Field Training School in Tsavo West National Park. The ivory is part of the ... Read more

Ivory trade | Tuesday, 19 July 2011

Amboseli book reviews - focus on elephant gestures and communication

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We like to share with you some media articles on The Amboseli elephants: A long-term perspective on a long-lived mammal. We are delighted to see a focus on our particular contributions to the book - our ... Read more

Media | Friday, 10 June 2011

The concept of an animal-free eZoo launched in Barcelona

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ElephantVoices is with enthusiasm and interest following the development of eZoo (see also ezoo on Facebook), a concept for the world's first techno-zoo without live animals recently presented in Barcelona. More and more zoos are facing ... Read more

Zoos | Tuesday, 7 June 2011

ElephantVoices in collaborative effort to ban elephants from circuses in Brazil

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On August 25 last year ElephantVoices' Joyce Poole and Petter Granli participated in a videoconference with Ricardo Tripoli - a Representative in the Congress of Brazil. Tripoli is actively working to promote Bill 7291/2006, which would ... Read more

Welfare | Wednesday, 25 May 2011

Will Toronto get the first elephant exhibit without elephants?

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We are following with substantial interest and excitement the current discussion in Toronto where, on 12th May, the Toronto Zoo Board will decide whether the city's Zoo should phase out their elephants. We're encouraged to r... Read more

Zoos | Monday, 9 May 2011

Elephant paintings and stories by Joyce - exhibit 2011

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Some of my paintings of elephants went on exhibit at Hubro Litteraturhus, Sandefjord, Norway on 31 March along with a selection of Petter's photographs. Due to a full house we had a second event on 29 ... Read more

Elephant Muse | Wednesday, 4 May 2011

Leadership in elephants: the adaptive value of age

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"Leadership in elephants: the adaptive value of age (335.01 kB)", was published online in Proceedings of the Royal Society B on 16 March 2011. Joyce was one of the authors of the paper in a s... Read more

Publications | Monday, 21 March 2011

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