Growing up in India, the sight of elephants at temples blessing children and adults by placing their trunks on peoples’ heads, decorated elephants standing in the sun for hours during the Kerala temple festival, elephants painted with chalk designs wearing colorful coverings on their backs, the warrior elephants carrying the “Raja” or king, elephants carved on temple basement moldings, ivory elephants walking in a row along tusk-shaped contours were all common sights and symbols. These artistic representations don’t quite address the level of harm that is done to animals that has exploded in the last several decades.