Save the Elephants African elephant populations, while at the same time, increasing awareness in the many issues which threaten to erode elephant populations and the habitats in which they live. Iain Douglas Hamilton has played an integral role in stopping the illegal ivory trade throughout the world, while at the same time raising the profile of elephant conservation and awareness. Primarily based in Samburu National Reserve in the Great Rift Valley of Kenya, Save the Elephants carries out rigorous studies of elephants, including elephant collaring and more recently, sophisticated elephant tracking techniques. STE works on three fronts to stop the killing of elephants:
Pink Elephants on Parade Pink Elephants on Parade Pink Elephants on Parade is the name of a segment, and the song played therein, from the 1941 Disney animated feature film "Dumbo" in which Dumbo and Timothy Q. Mouse, having accidentally become intoxicated (through drinking water spiked with moonshine), see pink elephants sing, dance, and play marching band instruments during a hallucination sequence. The song was written by Oliver Wallace and Ned Washington and sung by Mel Blanc, Thurl Ravenscroft and The Sportsmen. The segment was directed by Norman Ferguson, laid out by Ken O'Connor and animated by Hicks Lokey, Frank Thomas and Howard Swift.