World Elephant Day 2023: Every year August 12 is observed as World Elephant Day. It is a day dedicated to the preservation and protection of elephants worldwide.

World Elephant Day 2023: Date, history, significance and all you need to know

Ma Mingliang rarely encountered wild elephants while growing up in southwestern China, after centuries of hunting and deforestation nearly eradicated them. Today, the 42-year-old village chief barricades his community to keep them out.

China villagers learn to live with the elephant in the room

In Amboseli National Park in Kenya, elephants were fitted with tracking collars on Wednesday (August 12) as part of an event to mark World Elephant Day.

Elephants fitted with trackers as new births celebrated on World Elephant Day 

Today is world elephant day - but 2020 has been a bad year for elephants.

Gravitas: World Elephant Day: Just a symbolic event?

Singapore began destroying nine tonnes of seized ivory Tuesday, the largest such action globally in recent years, including contraband tusks that came from more than 300 African elephants.

Singapore crushes massive ivory haul on eve of World Elephant Day

Singapore said Monday it will impose a blanket ban on the domestic sale of elephant ivory and products from 2021 as the government tightens its campaign against illegal wildlife trade.

Singapore to ban sale of elephant ivory from 2021