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World Elephant Day 2023 - August 12
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- This day serves as a platform to highlight the challenges elephants encounter, including habitat loss, poaching for ivory, human-elephant conflicts, and the need for better conservation efforts.
- On August 12, 2012, Patricia Sims, a Canadian, and the Elephant Reintroduction Foundation of Thailand, an initiative of Queen Sirikit of Thailand, co-founded World Elephant Day.
- The theme for this day is "Safeguarding Elephant Habitats for a Sustainable Tomorrow".
- Amongst all land mammals, elephants possess the largest brains.
- African elephants are listed as "Vulnerable" and Asian elephants as "Endangered" on the IUCN Red List of threatened species.
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