You should help save ELEPHANTS because they're becoming EXTINCT!!!!!!!!!!! ELEPHANTS are so ADORABLE!!!!! SO if u please, please care for elephants and PRAY for them.....PLEASE PEOPLE! ME AND MY FRIEND love elephants! How you can help to save elephants.......... planting ivory could help save elephants? LONDON, England (CNN) -- Every few months, a special courier service delivers several large brown boxes to a small, discreet redbrick flat west of London. Carefully concealed amidst the safety of bubble wrap and packing tape rest 20,000 chips of imported ivory. Just behind an indiscriminate latched wooden gate, Antonio DeMendoza and his wife, Maria Elena Cabrera, eagerly await the ivory's arrival in their workshop. After unpacking the pieces, Maria Elena and her sister, Maria Carolina, craft the material into elegant necklaces, bracelets and earrings. Sometimes the sisters combine the ivory with gold and silver. Occasionally, they mix it with sapphires, rubies or other precious stones. Antonio then takes the pieces to various markets around London hoping to sell, anticipating interest, and expecting to educate someone about a product that might help to save elephants and rain forests. Three years ago Antonio and Maria lived in Colombia. Antonio served as president of a multinational technology firm, and Maria worked as general manager of an e-commerce company. In 2004, Antonio and Maria founded DeMEC Limited, a jewellery company specializing in vegetable ivory, an organic material found in South American rainforests. Maria designs, Antonio manages, and together the couple believe their efforts will protect elephants, preserve rainforests, and aid local economies of indigenous South Americans. "This is a way to support people in Colombia as well as a lot of other people working with vegetable ivory while hopefully saving elephants," said Antonio. "Our philosophy is to give back to nature what she has been giving to us." And, nature has been generously giving vegetable ivory for quite a while. According to Anders Barfod, an associate professor and palm expert at the University of Aarhus in Denmark, vegetable ivory, also known as tagua, is the seed endosperm of the ivory nut palm commonly found in coastal rainforests of Ecuador and Peru. "The endosperm is like in a coconut," he said. "It is first liquid and when it matures it gets hard." When the endosperm hardens, it obtains characteristics reminiscent of animal ivory. "It looks like ebony or plastic but it is nicer than plastic," Barfod explained, "This is why it is called vegetable ivory. It has rings like growth rings so it looks a little bit like real ivory." -www.cnn.com- So yes! it COULD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sample Heading 2 This is where you tell your story or provide information to your visitors. Be sure to include changes or new information in a timely fashion. By keeping your Web site up to date, visitors will have a reason to return often. You may add text or HTML code to this field and make it as complex as you want. Or, you may erase the content of this field causing it to be hidden when people visit your site. Sample Heading 3 This is where you tell your story or provide information to your visitors. Be sure to include changes or new information in a timely fashion. By keeping your Web site up to date, visitors will have a reason to return often. You may add text or HTML code to this field and make it as complex as you want. Or, you may erase the content of this field causing it to be hidden when people visit your site. Sample Heading 4 I know, i don't want to finish this page up b/c i'm too lazy~!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PLEASE SIGN MY GUESTBOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!