The International Fund for Animal Welfare, one of the world's biggest animal welfare organizations, has taken its annual Animal Action Week onto Beijing campuses this year in the hope of getting its message across to thousands of students. 

The theme of this year's Animal Action Week is "Protecting the last elephants on earth." At China's Renmin University, or People's University, campus paths have been lined with boards describing more than 30 kinds of animals that are already extinct, from dinosaurs to Java tigers, as well as 13 species on the edge of extinction, such as Asian elephants. Volunteers handed out awards to fellow students who sign up and donate money to the animal-survival project.

Founded in 1969, the International Fund for Animal Welfare has been promoting animal action weeks for a decade and has accomplished remarkable achievements. This is the 11th year of the Animal Action Week. This year, they're telling thousands of students from primary schools, middle schools and colleges about the fragile lives of elephants.

(CRI October 23, 2003)