Get ready to celebrate elephants, the largest living land animals. There are three elephant species alive today: African bush, African forest and Asian. World Elephant Day, observed on August 12, is dedicated to raising awareness about the urgent challenges that these gentle giants face, like ivory trade and habitat loss. This habitat loss brings them into closer contact with humans, which can lead to serious problems for both elephants and humans.
World Elephant Day
Today in History
More Desktop Wallpapers:
-
Chasing rainbows
-
Commemorating Indigenous Peoples
-
December solstice
-
Where the humpback whale sings
-
The lonely castle
-
Red rock country
-
Holi celebration in Jaipur, India
-
Reindeer, Lapland, Finland
-
Spiralling upward...
-
Horse Head Rock, New South Wales, Australia
-
South Stack Lighthouse, Holyhead, Wales, UK
-
High above the Aegean Sea
-
What are they celebrating?
-
Collared aracari
-
Gunnerside, Yorkshire Dales National Park, England
-
Lake Tahoe
-
Ring of Brodgar, Orkney, Scotland
-
40 years of recovery
-
Lago Pehoé, Torres del Paine National Park, Chile
-
The Blue City of Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India
-
Stunning symmetry
-
Belogradchik Rocks, Bulgaria
-
Whooper swans, Kotoku Pond, Japan
-
Angry bird, doting dad
-
Salar de Uyuni salt flats in Bolivia
-
Festival fever
-
A street filled with sakura trees
-
Victoria Day
-
What returned to this city 500 years ago?
-
The world’s greatest oasis?
Bing Wallpaper Gallery

