Make Way For The Life-Sized Elephant Sculptures

A herd of elephants can be seen passing between Piccadilly and Buckingham Palace in London’s Green Park. They seem to have come from somewhere, and are migrating towards another place. Unfortunately, they seem to be traveling at a very slow pace. In fact, they’re not moving at all, as they are just life-sized models.

The lumbering creatures are part of an ongoing collaboration between two nonprofits, CoExistence and Elephant Family, that explores how humans can better live alongside animals and the larger ecosystem through imaginative public art projects.
As its name suggests, CoExistence’s aim is to identify mutually beneficial modes of living considering that within the last century, the balance between world population and wilderness has shifted considerably: in 1937, 66 percent of global environments were intact with 2.3 billion people on Earth. Today, those numbers have undergone a dramatic change, with a world population of 7.8 billion and only 35 percent of wilderness remaining.

The herd in Green Park is only one out of the nine herds set up in London, the others being at other remarkable places in the city, like St. James’s Park, and Berkeley Square.

Thirty-seven endangered and extinct birds will join the herd in Green Park on July 6. Using steel, clay, and bronze, seven artists created the flock, which includes a three-meter-tall curlew by Simon Gudgeon that’s as large as some of the elephants. The avian additions are the product of a collaboration with WildEast, a group focused on restoring biodiversity in the U.K. and finding new methods of sustainable farming, and will be sold to raise money for conservation efforts.

Beautiful!

(Image Credit: CoExistence/ Colossal)


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