Benjamin shine: Taxi elephant

Taking its visual cues from the quintessential london black cab, 'taxi elephant' is designed by british artist and designer benjamin shine. 'Taxi elephant' was produced in the hopes to garner awareness for the charity elephant family. The design is being used for the elephant parade london 2010 to collectively raise 2 million pounds from the auction of these artistic representations of one of nature’s most endangered species. In the past century, the population of asian elephants have tumbled from 250,000 to just 25,000. Continuing this trend will mean that these creatures will be extinct by 2050. Check out more elephants here