Mission Elephant Petition: Earn Prizes for Getting Elephants Out of Urban Areas

In case you haven't herd the news, following an 18-month campaign by PETA, the city of Mumbai has announced that elephants will no longer be allowed in the city! This HUGE victory will save countless elephants from being forced to walk on scorching-hot, pothole-ridden roads in busy traffic and from being chained and unable to move around when they are not working. Miserable and frightened, captive elephants often develop skin and foot ailments, eye infections and cataracts and are sometimes hit by cars. In September 2006, an elephant named Lakshmi was hit by a water tanker in Mumbai. Because proper medical attention could not be provided, she suffered with her injuries for more than a day before dying.

Wouldn't it be great if other towns and cities across the country followed in Mumbai's progressive footsteps so that such tragic incidents will never happen again? Of course it would – that's why many of the biggest celebrities in India, including John Abraham, Rahul Khanna, Celina Jaitley, Raveena Tandon, MP Priya Dutt, Director Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Isha Koppikar, Mahesh Bhatt, Yana Gupta and Gulshan Grover, have signed PETA's petition, urging chief ministers across the country to ban the entry of elephants into urban areas. Timed to mark the one-year anniversary of Lakshmi's death, our star-studded elephant petition ad can been seen here.

Luckily, you don't have to be a high-profile celebrity to help animals. You just have to be an awesome activist – which brings us back to this month's mission! We need your help to get even more "autographs" on the petition. It's easy – just pass around our elephant petition to all your peeps. Getting as many sign-ups as possible is a great way to help our pachyderm pals and earn the following cool prizes:

petaDishoom pen and key chain for 100 sign-ups
PETA cap, pen and key chain for 300 sign-ups
petaDishoom T-shirt, cap and key chain for 500 sign-ups
Bumper surprise gift for 1,000 sign-ups

So grab some clipboards and pens and start collecting sign-ups! But first, read our tips for getting sign-ups here. (Sorry! The prizes offered with this mission are only for people who live in India. If you live outside India, check out the missions you can do for cool prizes on peta2.com.)

Download and print as many copies of the petition as you need.

Once you've finished, send all your petitions to us at StreetTeamIndia@petaindia.org.

Make sure all the sign-ups include the signer's name and e-mail address. And, of course, be sure to send us a cover sheet with your name, address, telephone number and e-mail address so that we can get your earnings to you. We will e-mail you to confirm your winnings.

Once you send in your sign-ups, any new sign-ups you collect will be counted from zero.

And to the few of you who might be tempted to cheat – not only will you lose your petaDishoom goodies for doing so, you will also be banned for good from the Street Team!