OUR MISSION

Our Elephants’ NFTs Are Different!

Elephants Helping Elephants Worldwide (EHEW) is designed to harness the immense powers of NFTs and Crypto to help preserve and rescue our giant friends.

EHEW is structured so that every cent from 12,000 NFTs goes directly to elephant sanctuaries and rescue projects around the world.

The WWF reports that African elephants will be extinct by 2040 if we “… don’t act right away.” The African elephant “will disappear if urgent action is not taken to save one of the world’s most iconic animal species.”

The Challenges Facing the World’s Elephants

Many people are unaware of the challenges facing elephants in today’s modern world. According to the WWF, 100 years ago, there were wild herds in numerous countries throughout Africa and Asia that totaled over 10 million elephants. Today the world total is less than 500,000. 95% of all elephants sharing the globe with humans have been eliminated in the last century, mostly due to human poaching for their ivory.  One elephant with huge tusks can yield over $100,000 on the black market.

EHEW is structured so that 80% of all monies raised from the sale of our unique elephant NFTs must go towards elephant sanctuaries, rescue and related projects helping elephants worldwide.  The extremely popular NFT projects, such as the algorithm-generated Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs, are displaying incredible levels of creativity in all of the features that are being made available to those who join the clubs by purchasing an NFT. Elephants Helping Elephants Worldwide, which is incorporated as a membership organization, hopes to be able to generate similar interest and revenues, and use those monies to meet the ever-increasing challenges faced by elephants in these modern times.

Immense good can be done for our giant friends by purchasing an NFT from EHEW, and by helping spread the word that there is an NFT investment with meaningful impact that is designed to help one of earth’s most majestic dwellers in many ways, perhaps even helping to insure their future existence in these precarious times.

Elephants in SE Asia

Elephants and humans have interacted for millennia in SE Asia. Elephants have been taken from the wild and been trained to do man’s bidding for many different tasks — logging, transportation, construction, war, hunting tigers, and many forms of preforming for the pleasure of humans.

Typically, a baby elephant is caught in a foot snare set up in the forest or jungle, yanked from his distressed mother, and “broken” by a process known as the “crush.” The elephant is literally beaten, confined in a tiny cage, chained by one leg to a short chain, and otherwise systemically mistreated until the elephant’s will is broken and the elephant simply gives up. From this point on the elephant is subject to being trained for the desired tasks expected.

Life for the elephant from this point onward can also be tough. Illegal logging of teak trees is very hard on the animals — long hours, hard work, and limited veterinary care — as the loggers are trying to avoid the authorities and, therefore, have little regard for the health and well being of the animals, as long as they can be forced into doing their jobs quickly.

Some legal elephant logging is carried out with government approval and inspection. These elephants are treated better than those abused by the illegal bandit loggers, but they are still asked to perform unnatural tasks for many hours daily. Thankfully, these elephants are retired at around age 50 and often get to live out the rest of their lives in sanctuaries.

Some elephants are trained to perform in roadside circuses. Special bicycles have been constructed and the elephants are taught to pedal them around in a little ring. These elephants often spend their entire lives in tiny cages, only coming out to perform in the circus. Oftentimes the elephants are also chained down with leg restraints. Elephants in circuses such as these have a dramatically shorter lifespan than those living in the wild, and we occasionally read news stories where the otherwise gentle and peaceful giants just plain can’t take it any longer and run amok.

Some tourist attractions offer elephant rides. Most modern activists believe that this is unnatural and constitutes abuse. Others say that elephants are like horses and have been allowing humans to ride on their backs for millennia. They point out the loving relationships sometimes developed by elephants and their mahout.

The luckier captive elephants wind up at a commercial tourist attraction where they are given some space to roam and interact with other elephants, but are still required to interact with humans in activities such as swimming and bathing. Elephants in these types of tourist attractions have it far better than those forced to log or perform, but they are still not free to roam their natural habitat as do elephants left in the wilds.

The luckiest elephants are those that are never captured and are free to spend their entire lives in their natural habitat. The goal of EHEW is to move all elephants closer to that goal as fast as possible, and to enlighten the world to the abuses that elephants are suffering daily due to their exploitation. And, of course, the overall goal is for all elephants to be free to live their lives in their natural habitats, free from the expectations and whims of humans.

Elephants, ESP and Precognition

One of the long-term goals of EHEW is to explore the special senses attributed to elephants through the centuries. When EHEW was first conceived, one of the main goals was to develop a compassionate means to explore the often-noted anecdotally, incredible “sixth sense” people have attributed to elephants for millennia. This is still an interest and will be developed when it can be done according to scientific method in a manner free from all exploitation.

The studies will test two different so-called superpowers that have been attributed to our giant friends - precognition (the ability to predict the outcome of future events) and ESP, the ability to remotely sense events and thoughts of others.

One of the most dramatic demonstrations of the special senses possessed by elephants is the amazing and well-documented story of the Elephant Whisperer, Anthony Lawrence.  He lived on an elephant preserve in Africa and spent his life working closely with elephants in the wild, developing complex and wonderful relationships with two herds of elephants who lived on his preserve.

One day Mr. Lawrence died of a heart attack in his house on the preserve.  The two elephant herds that lived on his preserve were both many miles from his house.  With absolutely no way for the elephants to know what had happened, both elephant herds immediately marched directly to his home, and spent three days performing the classic funeral ritual that elephants do when one of their own dies.  They walked in circles around his house, holding their trunks high and trumpeting. The elephants had visited his house before, but only occasionally.

Nobody drove the elephant herds to his house. Nobody even told the elephants that their benefactor had died. Nobody lured them with food. It is an event that cannot be explained by science. Display of extra normal senses, or “superpowers” to use the modern vernacular, have been exhibited by elephants many times throughout history.

But an even more incredible part of the story was yet to come.  Every year, on the exact date of his death, both herds come to his house and perform their funeral ritual for their fallen friend.

Reading his incredible story — there is much documentation online — was a major factor in the early development of EHEW. As much as the Elephant Whisperer helped elephants while alive, he continues to help them by making the world aware of the amazing powers his elephants illustrated on his death.

Another phenomenal situation illustrates the amazing possibilities of the pachyderm’s special senses.  The Asian tsunami of 2004 killed 240,000 humans — and not one elephant.  Elephants who were in the tsunami zone knew it was coming and did whatever was necessary to get to higher ground, often trying to warn humans in the process.  The elephants simply knew it was coming and they left for higher ground.

Scientists may tell you that the elephants sensed the earthquake which caused the tsunami through their feet. Maybe so.  But hundreds or even thousands of miles away?  And hours before the tsunami hit?  Maybe they did.  But that doesn’t explain the amazing events around the passing of the Elephant Whisperer.

It is the opinion of many that science is far too quick to label something as “junk” science that would be better described as “not yet understood” science. Elephants have demonstrated powers that human science cannot explain. EHEW is dedicated to unraveling as much of this mystery as possible, in a manner that is completely devoid of anything that could be called exploitation of our giant friends.