African & Asia are home to about 485,000 wild elephants.  Families of elephants roam for miles each day searching for food & water.  Their complex social units last a lifetime.  Elephants are intelligent & compassionate.  They care for their sick & they mourn their dead. 

Be contrast, hundreds of individual elephants endure the alien, unnatural conditions of American zoos & circuses.  Confined in tiny, solitary enclosures—it’s hard to imagine what life for a captive elephant is like.  Born Free USA works tirelessly to conserve wild elephants & end elephant captivity.