Cynthia Moss Leads Campaign To Save African Elephants

Remember that movie Gorillas In The Mist where Sigourney Weaver played Dian Fossey, the scientist who devoted her life to trying to understand gorillas and get to know them in their natural habitat. Along with Dian Fossey and Jane Goodall, famous for her chimpanzee research, Cynthia Moss is another female scientist who has devoted her life to studying animals in their own habitats.

In 2000 Cynthia Moss received Time.com's Hero of the Planet award for her work with elephants in the Amboseli National Park in Kenya, having gotten to know some 800 elephants personally. Born and raised in the united states in New York state, Cynthia has been studying these elephants for more that thirty-six years. Sadly, global warming has brought the worst drought to this part of Kenya since 1961, and it is having an awful toll on the landscape and wildlife. Cynthia is being forced to witness the loss of what has become her family. Unfortunately, this isn't a movie. At the same time, poaching is on the rise due to the economic crisis that has gripped the world.

Cynthia is making a bid to raise $10,000 to help her save the elephants of Amboseli. The money will be used to create a poaching sanctuary for some elephants so that the heard can survive this current warming trend. In the meantime she bears witness to one of natures saddest plights, the lack of water that is killing so many beautiful elephants. If you want to help her and Kenya's elephant population you can make a donation here.

The Amboseli Trust is the longest standing African Elephant conservation and research program in the world and is working with Cynthia to help save these gentle giants from the problems that the human economy and environmental detriment has caused them.

By John Wojewoda