There's no end to Ms Hilton's compassion after her stink in the slammer. After having 'done' climate change, with her 'hotter than I should be' t-shirts, the heiress is now turning her attention to animal welfare - with a campaign to stop elephants getting drunk.
Has she gone completely bonkers this time? Well, bizarre as it sounds, the problem of alcoholic elephants is actually a real thing, and deserves our attention. Elephants forage for food in rural India, and will take whatever humans leave lying around - including moonshine...
Perhaps surprisingly, elephants are what you could call 'lightweights' in the alcohol tolerance stakes, and this led to tragedy recently when a herd of them went on a drunken rampage through a village last month, with six of them bumping into cables and being electrocuted. So Paris has made an appeal to villagers in areas where elephants roam, asking them to keep their alcohol safely locked away. You tell 'em, Paris! [Via Ecorazzi]
I'm just glad she is doing SOMETHING, no matter how silly it sounds.
You think anyone would have heard of this if she didn't do it?
Anyone doing something positve to improve conditions for animals and/or people is a good thing, no matter what their reasons are for doing it, and needs to be viewed as such. I feel empathy for the elephants, and believe that is where the majority of the focus needs to be.