The Elephant Parade has seen a hundred full size art elephants colouring the streets of Amsterdam during an open air art exhibition dedicated to the Asian elephant that took place from September to October 2009.
From the Elephant Parade site:
The Elephant Parade is founded by father and son Mike and Marc Spits. With their project, they aim to raise attention for the Asian elephant, that is threatened with extinction. Their project has proven to be succesful: the first two editions of the Elephant Parade, held in Rotterdam and Antwerp, raised a total amount of over 700,000 euro. The benefits of the Elephant Parade are donated to the Elephant Family, the largest elephant charity in the world and was founded in 2002 by Mark Shand. He is a globetrotter, philantropist and writer and maker of the BBC documentary Queen of the Elephants.
In one of the big halls of the beautiful Westergasfabriek complex all the elephants have been admired, stroked, cuddled and photographed by hundreds of people among which my friends Leny and Villia and myself. :)
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