by admin | Oct 1, 2023 | Uncategorized
A Dream Come True: Speaking on a TEDx Stage! Dear friends, I’m so happy to share with you that a long time dream to speak on a TEDx stage finally came true October 14, 2023! I am deeply and passionately committed to saving elephants from extinction. I could not bear a...
by admin | Sep 29, 2023 | Uncategorized
A huge threat to elephants is the ivory trade. When poachers kill an elephant for ivory, they go after the largest elephants – the bulls and the matriarchs. Because elephants live in close knit affectionate family units led by a matriarch, when she is killed, it...
by admin | Sep 29, 2023 | Uncategorized
In January 2007, I had the great fun of ushering in the New Year in Thailand where I had traveled to meet and work with Lek Chailert at her elephant sanctuary, The Elephant Nature Park. I was part of a group, The Power of One, organized by Juelle and Donovan Wilkins,...
by admin | Sep 28, 2023 | Uncategorized
When I see an elephant family, free and happy in the wild, the little babies playfully cavorting in the mud with the female adults so tenderly and protectively looking after them, and see a majestic bull elephant in the power of his musth with so much triumphant...
by admin | Sep 28, 2023 | Uncategorized
Our Many Projects in Kenya Pachyderm Power!’s pivotal work in Kenya, to save the African elephant, confronts all the issues threatening elephants’ survival, namely poaching, hunting, human/elephant conflict, drought, loss of habitat, poverty and famine....
by admin | Sep 28, 2023 | Uncategorized
In 2005, I worked in South Africa researching a claim by the government of elephant overpopulation. The local conservationists I worked with, led by Dr. Audrey Delsink, had developed a successful contraception for the elephants on their reserve. When they offered it...