Reaching Out (World Elephant Day)

Today is World Elephant Day!
As a wildlife photographer living in Africa, I have a big passion for the conservation of elephants. The mission of this initiative is to spread awareness, share knowledge, and provide solutions for better care and management of both captive and wild elephants.

More info can be found here:
http://worldelephantday.org/

The #GoGrey campaign:
http://pages.96elephants.org/wed/

If you want more insight into the intelligence and social behaviour or elephants, please do check out Elephant Voices and their website:
http://www.elephantvoices.org/

According to Christina Russo writing for the Huffington Post:
"The slaughter of Africa's elephants for their ivory is leaving a devastating number of casualties: some conservationists cite as many as 50,000 are being killed annually. It's a full-on massacre. It's a genocide, actually, if you are gutsy enough to call it what it is."
Read the full article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/christina-russo/news-media-theres-a-war-o_b_5627658.html

The only creature that should have ivory in its possession is an elephant! 

Techs:
Nikon D800
Nikkor 70-200mm f2.8 VR-II @ 135mm
f8.0  |  1/640 SS  |  ISO-400