Vanessa in front of a Columbian Mammoth skeleton
This past September, director and Secretary Vanessa Gagne presented to hundreds of school children across the US about Asian Elephant Support and Asian elephant conservation. The Perot Museum of Science in downtown Dallas has a ScienceCast that allows for classrooms to engage with a speaker at a Career Cafe via video call in. Vanessa talked about Asian elephant natural history, their status as an endangered species, and of course, how the school kids could help elephants! She passed out a list of sustainable palm oil candy just in time for Halloween along with AES logo coloring sheets for the younger classes. The kids came up with excellent questions about elephants and were very interested in what they could do to help save the Asian elephant. Vanessa looks forward to returning to the Perot Museum in the future for more elephant outreach.