A herd of adult and baby elephants walks in the dawn light with the highest mountain in Africa, Mount Kilimanjaro, in the background, in Amboseli National Park, southern Kenya, on December 17, 2012. #

A five-month-old-orphaned elephant named Tembo plays with his keeper, Thomas Chalice, who has nurtured the elephant at Tony Fitzjohn's Mkomazi rhino sanctuary in Mkomazi, Tanzania, on June 19, 2012. #

An aerial picture taken on April 5, 2013, shows the main herd of elephants in Zakouma National Park, 800 kilometers east of N'Djamena in Chad. Ninety percent of the elephants of the park have been poached in the last decade. #

Baby elephant Chima (which means “surprise”) runs through the bush at the Botlierskop game farm near Mossel Bay, about 400 kilometers east of Cape Town, South Africa, on November 30, 2009. #

A herd of elephants confronts a hippopotamus at a watering hole in Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe on October 14, 2014. The watering hole was one of several that were contaminated by poachers with cyanide in 2013, leading to the death of at least 100 animals, according to Zimbabwean authorities. #

Kedar, a baby African elephant born on October 18, 2005, struggles to regain his footing while keeping close to his mother, Kubwa, a 29-year-old African elephant, at the Indianapolis Zoo on November 4, 2005. #

An elephant destroys a minibus during Sri Lanka’s sixth annual elephant polo tournament in Galle on February 15, 2007. Abey, a four-ton 18-year-old elephant, threw off his mahout and American rider and went on a rampage, destroying this vehicle, before being subdued. #

A seven-and-a-half-month-old orphaned elephant calf named Moses cuddles with his adoptive “mother” and foundation owner, Jenny Webb, at sunrise at their home in Lilongwe, Malawi, on October 9, 2012. Moses was found alone and close to death in the Vwaza Marsh Wildlife Reserve. #

A male elephant charges towards unseen Indian villagers after they threw stones in an attempt to scare away the herd of wild elephants that strayed close to the village of Rakamjote, close to the India-Nepal border, on May 26, 2015. Indian forest guards and local villagers used firecrackers to scare away the elephants after sightings caused unease among villagers. Human-elephant conflicts are on the rise in India as villagers and farmers encroach on the elephants’ natural habitat. #

A sedated elephant is secured on the back of a truck by Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) wardens during a relocation exercise, aimed at relocating 10 elephants that were encroaching on community land, on the margins of the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in central Kenya on June 19, 2013. #

Paulchen, a two-week-old African elephant, plays around in the Serengeti Park in Hodenhagen near Hamburg, Germany, on April 7, 2006. The young and exuberant baby elephant wore a protective bandage to avoid injuries during play. #