Happy Thanksgiving weekend, Titans fans! For this week, we will be donating to the Elephant Sanctuary located in Hohenwald, about an hour and a half outside of Nashville. Their mission is to provide captive retired elephants from circuses and zoos with care, companionship, and sanctuary as well as educate the public of the complex needs of elephants in captivity and the crisis facing elephants in the wild. Elephants are extraordinarily intelligent creatures, capable of distinguishing between human languages, using tools and even mourning their dead in addition to their renowned strong memories. Unfortunately, there are only ~40,000-50,000 elephants worldwide left around the world with some species even being marked as critically endangered with their main threat being poachers that harvest their tusks as well as habitat loss. Elephants make up not only a keystone species for their ecosystems in Africa and Asia, they also provide value to local communities through tourism and other sources of income.
The link to donate is below. As always, donate whatever you feel comfortable with.
Hey, my grandma lives next to it. When they were first getting started, they borrowed my grandfather’s tractor and manure spreader all the time.