Internet action to save wild Indian elephant tribe

The Northern Rivers Echo
March 19, 2009

It is impossible to compare the feeling of an elephant’s trunk touching your skin with any other sensation. Or convey in words the exhilaration of sitting atop an elephant feeling the gigantic muscles bunch and stretch under your body with each colossal footfall. Or explain just how profound an experience it can be to sit beside a creature of that size, massaging its ears and stomach while it purrs and gently growls with pleasure. And all the while, you’re aware of its enormous power, how it could roll over and crush you in an instant, yet instead interacts like a family dog playing with a child, the touch of its trunk playful and delicate.
It is a magic that’s very much real and alive, for the moment anyway.
But humanity’s relentless lust for progress and blatant disregard for nature is threatening the largest remaining population of wild elephants.
John Seed from the Rainforest Information Centre recently returned from the Southern Indian state of Kerala, where this wild elephant population is being endangered by a massive government development.

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