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Game Change: Elephants from Prey to Preservation


Oct. 18, 2018 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. National Museum of Natural History 1000 Constitution Ave. NW



Washington, DC (202) 633-1000 Free
We all love elephants. The world’s largest land mammal is everyone’s favorite behemoth onto which we project our affection for the idea of the gentle giant. We love to watch them lumber around the Serengeti in search of watering holes, their young marching alongside them. But what has humanity’s relationship with elephants historically been? And what is that relationship like now that we are acknowledging on a large scale that elephants, which scientists fear may go extinct, are in clear and present danger? These are the questions Game Change: Elephants from Prey to Preservation, a new National Museum of Natural History exhibition, seeks to answer. Through rare books, photographs, manuscripts, artwork, and other items dating from the 1800s to today, including a modern elephant radio collar, the exhibition chronicles the elephant’s journey from big game trophy to the subject of conservation efforts. Once, Americans were enamored with big game hunters treating animals like elephants as conquests, hunting them as sport. Now, a global preservation community actively tries to combat poaching and protect elephants. Learn how the game has changed. The exhibition is on view to Feb. 1, 2020 at the National Museum of Natural History, 10th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. Free. (202) 633-1000. naturalhistory.si.edu. (Kayla Randall)

Hmmm...I’ll have to check it out...thanks

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the exhibition chronicles the elephant’s journey from big game trophy to the subject of conservation efforts.

Hmmm, if the elephant wasn't already the subject of long standing conservation efforts largely funded by hunters they would have been gone long ago.

It's a strange world we live in nowadays, the ignorance that gets passed around is simply amazing. But we hunters are letting all this happen without so much as a whimper.