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Extinction Sucks: Asian Elephants

Extinction Sucks is a unique co-production between WWF and Babelgum to bring high-quality conservation programming to web audiences.

The 6 half-hour episodes feature Australians Ashleigh Young and Aleisha Caruso as they raise funds for much-needed equipment to be used in wildlife conservation projects.

They then visit the projects to hand over the gifts and find out more about the threatened species.

 

In the this episode of Extinction Sucks, Ash and Aleisha help WWF India's elephant conservation programme by raising the cash for night vision binoculars, to use in the fight against poaching and the illegal ivory trade.

They also lend a hand directing traffic in the  Mudumalai National Park in Southern India, where speeding motorists have claimed the lives of wild elephants.

Ash and Aleisha are faced with the brutalities of poaching when they come across an elephant which has been shot for its tusks.