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World Elephant Day 2025: ‘As policies improve, human-elephant conflict worsens'

India boasts of close to 30,000 tuskers but even as there are efforts being made to conserve them, man-elephant conflict seems to be a cause for concern. Mid-day Online spoke to Patricia Sims, founder of World Elephant Society, to understand how conservation has changed in the last 10 years since she first instituted the day for elephants

12 August, 2025 11:28 AM IST | Nascimento Pinto

Every year, World Elephant Day, co-founded by Patricia Sims (in picture), is celebrated on August 12 since 2012. Photo Courtesy: Patricia Sims

Why you should care for elephants and here's how you can protect them

Elephants are loved by many but how many of us take the effort to take an initiative to conserve them? Canadian filmmaker and elephant conservationist Patricia Sims, who is the co-founder of World Elephant Day, suggests easy ways to help protect the endangered species - not only at the tourism level but also to prevent human-elephant conflict

12 August, 2024 12:01 PM IST | Nascimento Pinto