Animal Advocate

From Jamie Joseph / Saving the Wild The last couple days l've been processing the devastating news that two super Tuskers, likely from the Amboseli population where Saving the Wild works, has been killed just across the border in Tanzania. My first super tusker experience was with Tim, and so this is the video I am sharing now. Just look at him. Can you even imagine putting a bullet into something so extraordinary? Tim was the inspiration for Saving the Wild's short film of epic proportions, Kimana Tuskers. The film tells the story of the brotherhood - the bond between tuskers and the younger bulls who rely on them to navigate the ancient paths and survive droughts, and other environmental challenges. Being in the presence of a tusker is to be in a state of reverence. It is a life changing spiritual experience that fills everyone I know who has had this experience with gratitude and awe. And so I struggle to understand why any human would want to kill them. Someone out there knows the names of the hunters who destroyed these two tuskers in Tanzania. I have a donor who is willing to pay well for those names. Come on people. Who out there got their thrills from destroying such a significant piece of the gene pool, happy to destroy something so precious to the world? We need names.