Our Wild World

The pressure on our world’s elephants is heating up. The survival of elephants ultimately depends upon us, what we decide our relationship to this iconic and keystone species will be and how we will answer the questions and balance between supply vs. demand for ivory vs. the complex animal. Elephants have survived for millennia, but will they survive us? Today’s dialogue will provide the foundation leading into our next two episodes with guest hosts experts on conservation efforts, to law enforcement monitoring both the illegal trafficking and legal trade in ivory. Overall we hope to provide a better understanding of the challenges we, and elephants, are facing. Coming up over the next episodes will be conversations with US Fish and Wildlife Law Enforcement, African Elephant biologists and conservationists Dr. Paula Kahambu of WildlifeDirect. Joan Donner, Jacqueline Russel and filmaker John Heminway.