Elephant Celebration | postcard

Watercolor illustration printed on high quality recycled paper. ↟ ↟ ↟ Sumatran elephant The evolution of elephants began about 55 million years ago in North Africa. To date, more than 300 elephant species have been recorded will. It is hard to believe that only two of them survived: the African elephant and the Asian elephant. Compared to African elephants, the Asian one is slightly smaller and also has smaller ears. The Sumatran elephant is one of the 3 subspecies of the Asian elephants. From him only about 2500 animals live on the Island of Sumatra and it applies alongside the Sumatran orangutan, the Sumatran Tiger and Sumatran rhino as critically endangered. To be threatened the Sumatran elephants mainly due to the drastic loss of their Habitat since the forests are cut down and planted for the Paper and palm oil production are converted. All the more important it that we base our product selection on recycled paper and Pay attention to palm oil-free foods and cosmetics.