World Elephant Day is observed on August 12th annually and it is dedicated to the preservation and protection of the world's elephants. Two Canadian filmmakers Patricia Sims and Michael Clark along with Thailand’s Elephant Reintroduction Foundation celebrated the first World Elephant Day on August 12, 2012. The main aim of World Elephant Day is to create awareness of the urgent plight of African and Asian elephants, and to share knowledge and positive solutions for the better care and management of captive and wild elephants.

The Minister for Environment and Forest Prakash Javadekar released a document on Best Practices and launched a portal on Human Elephant Conflict on the eve of World Elephant Day, 2020. He said, India is committed to the cause of saving elephants and other animals and is working towards robust, practical and cost effective solutions to end the human animal conflict.

Elephants are intelligent and they have deep emotions from intense grief to high level of happiness. Here are some of the adorable videos of Elephants.

Preparing for tomorrow’s world elephants day.. pic.twitter.com/JdUyq2G957
— Susanta Nanda IFS (@susantananda3) August 11, 2020

They all are going for #WorldElephantDay celebration. Most elegant family I have ever seen. pic.twitter.com/sEsFsnVCIZ
— Parveen Kaswan, IFS (@ParveenKaswan) August 12, 2020

In time of test, #Family is the best !! 😍🐘💕🤗 #WorldElephantDay pic.twitter.com/pse3oNtGb2
— Haathi Mere Saathi 🐘 (@HaatiMereSaati) August 12, 2020

This baby elephant thought he was drowning and rushed to save him ❤️

We really don't deserve them. 😭 pic.twitter.com/reV356TJ1I
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden_) August 6, 2020

Who said elephants can't run?#Elephant beside the road, it saw the jeep & tried to avoid us then all of a sudden it came running out of the bush & charged at us . Expert driver thank goodness.. @ParveenKaswan #WorldElephantDay2020 #Kabini @WildKarnataka
Vc- Sharath Abraham pic.twitter.com/s7fyfu9lut
— Abhishek Iyer 🇮🇳 (@abhishek_s_iyer) August 12, 2020

In this adorable video, a young #elephant affectionately reaches out to the fence painter who plays with the animal. The elephant's playfulness is a treat for the eyes! A great instance of human-animal coexistence. @WWFINDIA @moefcc @PrakashJavdekar @wti_org_india @natgeowild pic.twitter.com/uUaEFTdz8C
— Parimal Nathwani (@mpparimal) January 26, 2020