The Gorilla Narratives

08/02/2025

The human-elephant conflict is critical. Rapid development, road construction, deforestation, and industrial agriculture have decimated elephant habitats. In India alone, elephants have lost over 80% of their historic range. Migration corridors are blocked by railways, plantations, and towns. In search of food and water, elephants are forced into human settlements — with tragic consequences. As Sateesh Venkatesh explains in this piece, Sri Lanka has adopted a National Action Plan to deal with the problem.

Sri Lanka is facing one of the world’s most acute […]

08/01/2025

“Of all African animals, the elephant is the most difficult for man to live with, yet its passing – if this must come – seems the most tragic of all. I can watch elephants (and elephants alone) for hours at a time, for sooner or later the elephant will do something very strange such as mow grass with its toenails or draw the tusks from the rotted carcass of another elephant and carry them off into the bush. There is mystery behind that masked gray visage, and ancient life force, delicate and mighty, awesome and enchanted, commanding the silence ordinarily reserved for mountain peaks, great fires, and the sea.”
― Peter Matthiessen, The Tree Where Man Was Born


Please support this critical cause.

Keeping the Memories of the Matriarchs Alive

08/01/2025

08/01/2025

08/01/2025

Get ready... 🌀🤸🏽‍♀️💚

In anticipation of World Elephant Day on August 12, When Elephants Were Young will be available on our youtube channel FOR FREE — starting August 4th!!! 🥳

Narrated by William Shatner, a young man and his young elephant street beg in gritty Bangkok amid the controversial elephant business that threatens their survival, until the opportunity comes to release the elephant to the wild. 🐘

Grab your friends, make some popcorn and watch this inspiring documentary!

🫶🏻 More details to come on August 1, you can check out the rest of our video here: https://www.youtube.com/
✨ Host elephant events and post them on our website: https://worldelephantday.org/eventsub/
💸 Donate to support World Elephant Day: https://givebutter.com/WED2025

Produced and directed by World Elephant Day Founder Patricia Sims, the production of When Elephants Were Young was instrumental in the creation of the global World Elephant Day campaign.

08/01/2025

World Elephant day has just launched the Emerging Storyteller Fund — a $300,000 initiative that will support and mentor young storytellers across Africa and Asia. These are the next-generation filmmakers, writers, photographers, and podcasters who are documenting elephant life in ways science alone cannot: with empathy, urgency, and cultural depth. Please join them. Help them stand with the matriarchs — and with the next generation of storytellers rising to speak for them.

During August 2024 on her World Elephant Day tour to […]

07/31/2025

07/31/2025

World Elephant Day, August 12, is just around the corner. Here's a video we made, with love, that cost us nothing, thanks to the generosity of some good people in the entertainment biz. 🐘❤️

Please donate: https://givebutter.com/WED2025World Elephant Day on August 12 is coming! We’re thrilled to launch our 2025 official campaign video "Matriarchs...

07/14/2025

A Community’s Journey to Protect Mountain Gorillas

07/09/2025

Please circulate

07/08/2025

We are proud to present the work of Joseph Ainembabazi and Hope Foundation Uganda 🇺🇬

A Community’s Journey to Protect Mountain Gorillas