Lifelike Sculpture of Dead Elephant Captures the Horror of Poaching

in Animal News on October 26, 2015

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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