Billy Joel Puts the Sound of Trumpeting Elephants Over the Tinkle of Ivory Piano Keys

[Omaha Steve]

In a new video, the Piano Man tells fans how they can help stop African elephants from going extinct.

http://www.takepart.com/video/2015/04/20/billy-joel-hammers-piano-elephant-point

April 20, 2015 By Taylor Hill

Taylor Hill is TakePart's associate environment and wildlife editor.

Billy Joel wants to make sure that tickling the ivories never again means an elephant was put in harm’s way.

The Piano Man is using his world-famous voice to end the daily slaughter of elephants. In the video above, Joel narrates the latest campaign ad for the Wildlife Conservation Society’s 96Elephants.org site.

“Every day, 96 elephants are killed in Africa for their tusks,” Joel says in the video. “We can’t turn back time, but we can reverse this trend.”

Since 1978, African elephant populations have declined by 60 percent, mostly because of habitat loss, as well as the increasing value of their ivory tusks. Between 2010 and 2012 alone, poachers slaughtered 100,000 elephants across Africa—a number so unsustainable, biologists believe that the continent’s elephants could be extinct within two decades if the hunting doesn’t end.

FULL story at link.

[Omaha Steve]

1. Kick

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2. k&r...

[marym625]

3. Love Billy Joel

And love that he is trying to help the elephant