100,000 Maasai citizens were just erased from the voter rolls in Tanzania, for daring to stay on their ancestral lands. Using firearms and teargas, the government has expelled thousands Indigenous Maasai to make way for safari tourism. Now, they’re taking it a step further by stripping the brave few that remain at home in the Ngorongoro district of their right to vote. The Tanzanian government is trying to keep it quiet to avoid backlash from pro-democracy funders – but a global roar from our movement can put the spotlight on this violation, force funders to draw a line in the sand, and help the Maasai to restore their right to vote.

In the lush landscapes of India, where ancient jungles meet modern advancements, a silent crisis unfolds. Our majestic elephants, symbols of ecological wealth and cultural heritage, are increasingly endangered by the sprawling network of railways that crisscross their natural habitats. These gentle giants, integral to the biodiversity and ecological balance of our forests, face grave threats from speeding trains. Every collision, every loss, echoes through the ecosystem, disrupting the lives and futures of countless species, including our own.

Even though female elephants stay with their mothers for life and males until their early teens, the first step in training elephants to perform tricks is to break the bond between babies and their mothers. When they are 18 to 24 months old, calves are roped by all four legs and tied by the neck to an “anchor elephant” who leads them away from their mothers. The frantic moms are restrained by having all four legs chained to the wall while the babies try to run away and fight having the ropes put on. Please urge Carden Circus to nix its cruel animal acts and send the animals to reputable sanctuaries.

In 2019, CWI went to Phoenix Zoo to do a welfare check on the animals held captive there. We were especially disturbed by the behavior of an Asian elephant named Indu. Indu has been alone since 2021 when her companion Sheena died. A third elephant, Reba, died the year before. The Association of Zoos and Aquariums state that all accredited zoos must keep a minimum of 3 elephants (or 2 males). As we previously witnessed at Hogle Zoo, the AZA does NOT hold zoos to its set requirements. Join us in speaking out! Let the AZA know that singly-kept elephants deserve better and that the Phoenix Zoo must relocate Indu immediately.

The "Traveling Animal Protection Act", supported by CWI and enacted in 2021, was meant to end elephant exploitation in Colorado. But the Colorado Renaissance Festival doesn't care about the law or elephants - they only care about their bottom line. CWI has discovered that the Colorado Renaissance Festival continues to use elephants at their event. CWI is pursuing action with the state of Colorado related to this situation. In the meantime, please join us in letting the Colorado Renaissance Festival know that you find their continued use of elephants unjust and abhorrent and that you will NOT attend their event as long as they continue this vile practice.

Minnie, a 48-year-old elephant, is living in lonely confinement as the only elephant at the Commerford Zoo in Goshen, Conn. — a travelling zoo where Minnie is exploited for profit. Ripped from the wild in Thailand when she was two months old, Minnie was sold to owners in the United States who for decades forced her to perform and give rides to people at fairs under threat of a vicious bull hook – even while ill, according to National Geographic. Elephants are highly intelligent and social creatures, who form close-knit family units in the wild and are capable of grieving, remembering, and suffering and need space to roam and company of their own kind to thrive, according to experts.

The Indigenous San people are standing up for their homeland - where 1 in 3 surviving African elephants live. A failing oil company is tearing up the wilderness in a vain effort to save itself. ReconAfrica, a Canadian oil and gas company tried to silence me with a bribe and a job offer. But my people are tired of corruption, and we will not remain silent as this oil giant threatens us, our rights and pushes wildlife closer to extinction. In our ancestral home, we've safeguarded iconic species like lions and giraffes, but Africa's elephants, once 26 million strong, have dwindled to under 450,000. The largest remaining elephant herd in Africa, a mere 130,000, that call the Okavango home, teeters on the brink, threatened by ReconAfrica. Join our global call NOW to tell Minister Pohamba Shifeta to stop delaying a decision and save the Okavango Delta!

Unsustainable development and encroachments inside the Indian forests are killing endangered Asian elephants at an alarming rate. Every year, 18-20 elephants die in train collisions alone. Speed restrictions are not enforced even inside protected areas, while many accidents occur outside too. An early warning pilot system has averted 800+ train collisions with elephants January 2023-May 2024. It cautions train drivers of elephant presence, giving them enough time to apply brakes and prevent tragedies.

In December 2023, Sedgwick County Zoo in Wichita, Kansas, excitedly announced that four of its female wild-born African elephants were pregnant. For five years, the zoo tried to get the elephants pregnant under the guise of conservation — but this is anything but. Act now to stop this conservation con being used to justify confining more elephants in a zoo.

Every year, millions of wildebeest stampede through the Mara-Serengeti ecosystem between Kenya and Tanzania, chasing rains and grazing in open plains. This is critical to the ecosystem’s health and for communities’ economic well-being. That’s why we’re asking you to amplify our support for the bipartisan U.S. Foundation for International Conservation Act (USFICA).

Act now to release these ill-treated, suffering seniors to a reputable sanctuary to live out their days in comfort in a warm climate. At 59 and 63 respectively, Emily and Ruth are old for zoo elephants, who rarely survive past 40. A long life, however, is no blessing when you are doomed to live in a tiny prison-like yard and barn in the freezing winters of Massachusetts.

We, the global community of conservationists, wildlife enthusiasts, and concerned citizens, urgently appeal to your esteemed office for the immediate ban on elephant trophy hunting within the Tanzania range of the Amboseli elephants. This unique cross-border population, shared with Kenya, is under dire threat following the issuance of new hunting licenses that disrupt a 30-year-old agreement vital for their protection.

The Toledo Zoo in Toledo, Ohio, was featured on our 10 Worst Zoos for Elephants in 2021 for callously separating elephants and for its reckless breeding program — and now one of its elephants is unfortunately pregnant again. Urge the zoo to close its exhibit and send its two African elephants to an accredited sanctuary!

At the Fresno Chaffee Zoo, which was recently named one of the 10 Worst Zoos for Elephants in North America, African elephants Nolwazi, Amahle, and Vusmusi are confined to a 3 acre yard that they have limited access to. The exhibit is across from a nightclub, restaurants, and surrounded by major transportation arteries and railways. When the handlers are off duty or it’s too cold outside, the elephants are further confined in a largely concrete barn.

Happy the elephant was ripped from her wild home and sold to a now-defunct zoo. In the years that followed, she ended up at the Bronx Zoo in New York, where she survived the death of her partner elephant and for years has been forced to live solitarily on a 1-acre parcel of land, separated by a fence from the zoo’s other elephant in captivity, according to news reports. But that could soon change for Happy and Patty, the other elephant cruelly confined to captivity in New York City, if a newly-introduced bill that would put an end to cruel elephant captivity in the Big Apple passes.

In 2023, the effort to release Billy the Asian elephant from the Los Angeles Zoo where he’s spent nearly his entire life to sanctuary entered its 20th year. Now, the Los Angeles City Council holds the key to his freedom in its hands. We need your help now to pressure council members to free Billy before he suffers any more physical and mental decline.

We don’t need more oil because we have enough proven reserves to supply demand as the world transitions to a more sustainable low-carbon economy. Yet, Canadian oil company ReconAfrica has its sights set on the Okavango River Basin—including Namibia’s Kavango regions and Botswana’s Okavango Delta—an ecosystem that supports the livelihood of tens of thousands of people and serves as home to endangered wildlife, from lions and giraffes to African Wild Dogs and the world’s largest remaining population of Endangered Savanna Elephants.

For over 100 years, several Shrine circuses have made a spectacle out of exploiting sensitive and intelligent animals, including elephants, tigers, and bears who were taken from their mothers as babies to be subjected to a lifetime of suffering. Yet Shriners International hasn’t ended these cruel events, which some Shrine temples continue to host.

With the passage of the Traveling Exotic Animal and Public Safety Protection Act (TEAPSPA, H.R.5999/S.3220), Congress aims to amend the Animal Welfare Act to restrict the use of exotic and wild animals in traveling circuses and other traveling acts. Traveling circuses are detrimental to animal welfare because of the adverse effects of captivity and transport. Due to severe confinement, lack of free exercise, and the restriction of natural behaviors, animals used in traveling circuses suffer and are prone to health, behavioral, and psychological problems.

Intelligent elephants are being starved, chained, and hit with metal spikes and vicious hooks so they will give rides and perform tricks for tourists at the Samutprakarn Crocodile Farm and Zoo in Thailand, according to news reports. Shockingly, local authorities reportedly have decided not to pursue penalties or cruelty charges — instead telling the zoo to feed the elephants more grass and loosen the animals’ chains to reduce stress and injury, according to news reports.

Sign our petition urging Odisha’s wildlife wardens to thoroughly investigate these horrific circumstances, identify the person(s) responsible, and forward appropriate charges on for prosecution.

The Bronx Zoo has been given the shameful title of the 5th worst zoo for elephants in the country. The New York Times calls Happy the Bronx Zoo’s loneliest elephant. That’s because this highly intelligent and social being is one of the only zoo elephants in the entire United States who is being held alone. And it looks like her living conditions won’t change anytime soon unless we do something about it.