It’s Earth Day today, and a beautiful morning. We are getting ready for this spring’s Run for the Wild at the Bronx Zoo on April 26, an annual family event in which runners gather early in the morning at the zoo to run and raise funds for all the work that the Wildlife Conservation Society does to preserve the environment around the world. The facepainting will be free for participants in this event, from 7:00 – 9:30 am. The annual Run for the Wild events are great fun and a unique way to enjoy the zoo while helping wildlife. Please come and enjoy a wonderful morning at the zoo!
Each year the Run for the Wild features an iconic animal as “poster child”, and this is the second year to feature the elephant. Elephant populations are currently under direct threat from poaching (65% of the African Forest Elephant population have been killed between 2005 and 2012), and the WCS and other organizations are pushing to protect them both by their efforts in the field and by working to enact laws to ban ivory trading. Learn more: 96 Elephants: A Killing at the Bai
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- Ganesha – remover of obstacles
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- from a Chinese Opera design
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- from a Kuosi Society mask, Africa
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- swimming elephant
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- Mastodon
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- Painted Elephant, from a foto of an Indian festival
Related articles
- Run For The Wild In Bronx Zoo Aims To Save Elephants From Poaching (newyork.cbslocal.com)
- Face Painting: 14 Lion Faces — Run For the Lions at the Bronx Zoo
- Run for the Wild: 4000 Tigers video
- Science proves elephants are even smarter than we thought (salon.com)
