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The purpose of The Elephant Charter is to provide a set of guiding Principles, based on elephant biology, to form a touchstone for anyone needing to address elephant interests.

PAWS is dedicated to the protection of performing animals, to providing sanctuary to abused, abandoned and retired captive wildlife, to enforcing the best standards of care for all captive wildlife, to the preservation of wild species and their habitat and to promoting public education about captive wildlife issues.

The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee, founded in 1995, is the US' largest habitat refuge developed specifically for endangered African and Asian elephants.

Global Sanctuary for Elephants Mission: Protecting, rescuing, and providing sanctuary for elephants worldwide.

Elephant Sanctuary Brazil is a new non-profit organization that will help transform the lives and the future of captive elephants in South America. Read more (English).

The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust embraces all measures that compliment the conservation, preservation and protection of wildlife. These include anti-poaching, safe guarding the natural environment, enhancing community awareness, addressing animal welfare issues, providing veterinary assistance to animals in need, rescuing and hand rearing elephant and rhino orphans, along with other species that can ultimately enjoy a quality of life in wild terms when grown.

Elephant Haven's Mission: Offering elephants a place to retire; The resocialization and rehabilitation of elephants; Providing information and researching elephants and their complex needs and behaviors; Thinking along and contributing to a world of respect and protection for elephants and their habitat.

The Amboseli Elephant Research Project is the longest study of wild elephants in the world, and work to understand the lives and ensure the future of 1,500 elephants in the Amboseli ecosystem fed by the waters of Kilimanjaro.

Protecting the rights, welfare and habitats of animals.

Born Free is a charity working to protect threatened species and end individual wildlife suffering.

Eine Stiftung im Dienste der Tiere und der Natur. Wenn alle Stricke reissen, wenn alles vergeblich scheint, wenn man verzweifeln möchte über die Zerstörung der Natur und das Elend der gequälten und verfolgten Tiere, dann kann man sich immer noch an die Fondation Franz Weber wenden.

Elemotion Foundation is a non-profit organization working to improve the lives of Asian elephants.