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Marking World Elephant Day with the African Wildlife Foundation

Water-to-Go are Supporting AWF and their Incredible conservation work on World Elephant Day

To mark World Elephant Day, Water-to-Go are raising awareness of the conservation work done to protect the world’s elephants with specific reference to the African Wildlife Foundation, who we are working in partnership with.

The survival and well being of elephants is currently under threat due to various reasons such as escalating poaching for the commercial ivory trade and increasing loss of natural habitats. It is important that we recognise these threats to these great animals and ensure solutions are found so that they are protected. The African Wildlife Foundation are one of several organisations that are set up to specifically tackle these issues and remove the threats.

If you want to do your bit and donate towards a worthwhile organisation who are working to ensure elephants and other African wildlife thrive, you can purchase a limited edition Water-to-Go bottle for just £20 (when using the code below) where £10 from every purchase goes towards the work AWF do.

(Use code AWF20 to get an exclusive World Elephant Day discount)

About World Elephant Day 2019

World Elephant Day (12th August) was founded by the World Elephant Society in 2012, to raise awareness around the problems facing the world’s elephant population and to highlight potential solutions.

This year, the day will also focus on the escalation of poaching, habitat loss, human-elephant conflict and mistreatment in captivity as the very real threats the world’s elephant population. Elephant numbers have dropped by 62% over the last decade, and they could be mostly extinct by the end of the next decade. An estimated 100 African elephants are killed each day by poachers seeking ivory, meat and body parts. You can follow the day across social media via #worldelephantday.

The day will also celebrate these awe-inspiring animals. In fact, an elephant’s trunk has more than 40,000 muscles, more than all the muscles in the human body. They can tear down trees or even pick up a blade of grass with their trunks. The African elephant weighs 22,000 pounds making it the World’s largest land animal. You can help support these brilliant creatures by support AWF with a Water-to-Go limited edition AWF bottle.

Africa loses 8 percent of its elephants to poaching every year

African Wildlife Foundation

However, despite a ban on international trade in ivory, African elephants are still being poached in large numbers. If the elephants are to survive, the demand for ivory must be stopped.

Elephants are a keystone species. It means they create and maintain the ecosystems in which they live and make it possible for a myriad of plant and animal species to live in those environments as well. The loss of elephants gravely affects many species that depend on elephant-maintained ecosystems and causes major habitat chaos and a weakening to the structure and diversity of nature itself. To lose the elephant is to lose an environmental caretaker and an animal from which we have much to learn.

Water-to-Go’s Partnership with African Wildlife Foundation

Water-to-Go are working with the African Wildlife Foundation in order to raise awareness of the work that they do and to ensure wildlife and wild lands thrive in modern Africa. As part of our partnership, we have produced a limited edition AWF branded bottle available from our website. To find out more about our partnership with AWF click here.

As part of our partnership, £10 from every bottle sold will be donated to African Wildlife Foundation to help support their vital work in the conservation of Africa’s endangered wildlife. To get yourself a bottle and support AWF’s incredible work, click here.

(Use code AWF20 to get an exclusive World Elephant Day discount)

African Wildlife Foundation’s work with Elephant Conservation

AWF work all over the continent, helping ensure all wildlife is able to thrive in modern Africa alongside local communities. AWF also has a number of programmes and projects, helping protect the population of African Elephants. Currently, the two biggest challenges facing African Elephants is firstly the threat of ivory poachers as well as their slow reproduction rate. They believe that to protect the African Elephant they must be given space to roam, empower community members to protect the elephants and raising awareness.

AWF also train law officials as part of their conservation work to combat wildlife crimes such as poaching and trafficking. It is imperative that we support their work to ensure the future of these magnificent animals. Do your bit to support the protection of elephants with Water-to-Go.

Learn more about World Elephant Day on their website

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