meet Hope, my baby elephant

This is Hope, he's a baby elephant at the Elephant Nature Park and Elephant Haven in Chiang Mai, Thailand. He's 6 1/2 and the park's cheekiest elephant. I just sponsored him for a year. I know, it's probably like the strangest charitable donation anyone has ever heard of, but i don't think people realize how expensive it is to support elephants and how important they are to Thailand. I was reading all these stories about elephants who had been rescued from horrible and abusive conditions, and they all just really broke my heart. I can't say no to an innocent animal, especially ones like this.