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  2. Elephant Butte (Arches National Park) - Wikipedia

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    Elephant Butte is a flat-topped cap surrounded by numerous towers and fins including Parade of Elephants. Double Arch is also a natural feature of Elephant Butte and was used as a backdrop for the opening scene of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. [4] Precipitation runoff from Elephant Butte drains east into the nearby Colorado River.

  3. Arches National Park - Wikipedia

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    Arches National Park is a national park of the United States in eastern Utah.The park is adjacent to the Colorado River, 4 mi (6 km) north of Moab, Utah.The park contains more than 2,000 natural sandstone arches, including the well-known Delicate Arch, which constitute the highest density of natural arches in the world.

  4. Elephant Parade - Wikipedia

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    Elephant Parade (registered as Elephant Parade BV) is an open-air exhibition dedicated to saving the Asian elephant from extinction. For one or more months, hundreds of painted elephant sculptures specially created by artists are placed in the streets of one or more host cities to increase public awareness of the plight of the elephant and gain ...

  5. Canyonlands National Park - Wikipedia

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    Canyonlands National Park is a national park of the United States located in southeastern Utah near the town of Moab.The park preserves a colorful landscape eroded into numerous canyons, mesas, and buttes by the Colorado River, the Green River, and their respective tributaries.

  6. Dasara elephants - Wikipedia

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    Sometimes abandoned young elephants are also trained for dasara. The abode of the elephants during the rest of the year is usually their training camps and the surrounding National Parks. There are around 70 elephants in camps at Dubare and elsewhere. About 240 mahouts and kavadis care for the elephants. [citation needed] Video of 2019 Dasara ...

  7. Moab - Wikipedia

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    Moab [a] (/ ˈ m oʊ æ b /) was an ancient Levantine kingdom whose territory is today located in southern Jordan. The land is mountainous and lies alongside much of the eastern shore of the Dead Sea .

  8. The Big Egg Hunt - Wikipedia

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    The Big Egg Hunt, also known as the Faberge Big Egg Hunt, was a 2012 charity fundraising campaign in aid of Action for Children and Elephant Family and sponsored by the jeweller Faberge. The two charities backed the largest-ever Easter egg hunt, known as The Big Egg Hunt, in London in the spring of 2012. Around 200 artists, celebrities and ...

  9. Mela shikar - Wikipedia

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    Renowned elephant expert Dhritikanta Lahiri Choudhury says, " The Project Elephant Committee already has a resolution on mela shikar. That is, the technique of mela shikar can be used, but only to scare away wild herds. For reducing the number of elephants, however, tranquilization is a much better and effective option.