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Providing clean drinking water, a proper diet, opportunities for social interactions, and regular training sessions along with daily baths, and maintaining healthy skin and feet are all important aspects of daily care. Elephants are intelligent and social creatures.

You can help to ensure that elephants are not taken from the wild by making sure that your local zoo does not obtain its elephants from any of the elephant range states. Instead demand that your zoo phase out its elephant exhibit or build a sanctuary sized enclosure where elephants basic interests can be met.

Their big ears and wrinkly skin help them stay cool. They also have tusks made of ivory that can help them eat and protect themselves. Elephants also have long trunks that are used to grab food, suck up water, or throw dirt on their backs.

Overview. In 2018 the Government introduced legislation that would ban commercial dealing in elephant ivory in the UK. The resulting Ivory Act 2018 (hereafter ?the Act?) received Royal Assent on 20 December 2018.

21 Indoor enclosures must allow elephants to move freely as a group, turn and lie down. Indoor enclosures must be well ventilated but at sufficiently low velocity to avoid draughts and must be well lit, preferably with natural skylights and the ability to fade the lighting to minimise disturbance to the elephants.

Experts, such as Joyce Poole of ElephantVoices have put together criteria which zoos should take into consideration in order to make the living conditions of their elephants as endurable as possible: elephants are to be kept in groups; they are to be kept in protected contact, they must not be put in chains, elephant ...

Due to their physical size, complex social needs, high level of intelligence, large home ranges, diverse diet and large behavioural repertoire, the full welfare needs of elephants cannot be met in captivity. A life in captivity for elephants is inherently cruel and leads to suffering throughout their long lives.

Protected Contact ? The handling of an elephant when the keeper and the elephant do not share the same unrestricted space. Typically in this system the keeper has contact with the elephant through a protective barrier of some type, while the elephant is not spatially confined and is free to leave the work area at will.