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.