Rather than spending so much time looking into her makeup mirrors, Paris has vowed to help the world since she was released from jail this year. She has talked about doing some sort of community service many times, but this one seems like one of those where she was probably sitting around with some people and heard about it and thought it would be funny to support.
In India they are having an issue with elephants breaking into farms that produce the ingredients for alcohol. As such these elephants are getting drunk off of the supply and stumbling around the farms breaking property.
Activists said a celebrity endorsement such as Hilton’s was sure to raise awareness of the plight of the pachyderms that get drunk on farmers’ homemade rice beer and then go on a rampage. Rampages, I tell ya.
“The elephants get drunk all the time. It is becoming really dangerous. We need to stop making alcohol available to them,” the 26-year-old socialite said in a report posted on World Entertainment News Network’s Web site. Her comments were picked up by other Web sites and newspapers around the globe.
Sangeeta Goswami, head of animal rights group People for Animals, told The Associated Press: “I am indeed happy Hilton has taken note of recent incidents of wild elephants in northeast India going berserk after drinking homemade rice beer and getting killed.”
“As part of her global elephant campaign, Hilton should, in fact, think of visiting this region literally infested with elephants,” Goswami said.
Another conservationist said elephant alcohol abuse was just a symptom of the real problem.
“Elephants appear on human settlements … because they have no habitat left due to wanton destruction of forests,” said Soumyadeep Dutta, who heads Nature’s Beckon, a leading regional conservation group.
“A celebrity like Hilton must focus her attention on this fact,” Dutta said.