Lifelike Sculpture of Dead Elephant Captures the Horror of Poaching

in Animal News

In an attempt to draw attention to the atrocity of elephant poaching, artist Kevin Van Braak submitted a thought-provoking piece to an international outdoor art exhibit in Tilburg, Netherlands. The life-sized wooden sculpture depicts an elephant carcass with the tusks carved out, inviting us to see—up close and in gory detail—the savage butchery that threatens elephants every day.

Link: One Green Planet

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