In those places.

Right.

Right, right.

Well, and, and India is a fascinating country in just many ways because I do find when I go there, I'm impressed by the...

I, I have to say the value, uh, although we're talking here about some of the cruelties that are happening, there is so much on the other side that represents, I feel like some leadership in helping animals.

Like all hunting is banned in India.

So for instance, uh, I often see in places like in Africa where people are dealing with poverty and they, they open up opportunities for people to pay to go kill an elephant or pay to go kill a lion, and you could never go to India and, and shoot and kill an elephant.

Mm-hmm.

Can you tell us about what is happening with the bears? What species of bear is most likely to get into that interaction with a human? And what is happening with the dancing bears?

So Wildlife SOS actually got started with one big focus, and that was to bring an end to dancing bears in India.

It is a practice that had existed for hundreds of years.

And two people, Geeta and Kartik, who are the co-founders of Wildlife SOS, They were determined that this come to an end.

And they put together a plan.

And it was a 10-year plan to bring an end to what had existed for hundreds of years.

And at the time, there were about 1,000 dancing bears on the streets.

terrible condition.

And it's like, you know, with the giraffe, it's a silent extinction going on that isn't being talked about enough.

I couldn't agree with you more, Chris, in terms of not talking about this issue enough.

So let me give you just a couple more numbers with that 60% of the elephants being in India.

There are right now about 35,000 to 40,000 Asian elephants left in the world.

So when we say 60% of them are in India, we're looking at between 23,000 and 25,000.

And if you compare that to African elephants, where we hear a lot about the horrible culling that's going on and the poaching for ivory, still they have about three to 400,000 elephants.

So we're looking at the Asian elephant species being only about 10% of what we see in the African species.

Can you kind of discuss, you know, this rescue and his representation of those efforts?