{"id":804281,"date":"2026-08-06T05:38:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T05:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/804281\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T05:38:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T05:38:16","slug":"100-indian-elephant-sculptures-to-go-on-display-in-boston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/804281\/","title":{"rendered":"100 Indian elephant sculptures to go on display in Boston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>100 Indian elephant sculptures to go on display in Boston<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1785994696_170_author_avatar.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Tim Nazzaro\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>BOSTON \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">One hundred Indian elephants have migrated to Boston, Massachusetts, for a weekslong stay.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">The art installation, handcrafted by indigenous artisans from India&#8217;s Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, will be on display at the Commonwealth Avenue Mall from Arlington Street to Fairfield Street from Aug. 8 through Sept. 13.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">Titled &#8220;The Great Elephant Migration,&#8221; the exhibition is part of a global movement to inspire human-wildlife coexistence, with each sculpture representing a real wild elephant.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">In the Nilgiri Hills of southern India, humans and elephants share space more closely than anywhere else on Earth.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">The Indian elephant is considered an endangered species, with only 20,000-25,000 left in the world, according to the World Wildlife Federation.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"5\">Habitat loss, along with poaching, has contributed to the species&#8217;s dwindling numbers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"100 Indian elephant sculptures to go on display in Boston BOSTON \u2014 One hundred Indian elephants have migrated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":804282,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[341572,228,226,227,18902,8731,341581,341582,341573,19232,229,21089,341583,2027,88,6463,341574,53583,2344,341575,341580,341584,341579,2001,192733,341576,14797,40243,341577,28123,341578],"class_list":["post-804281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arlington-street","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-aug","tag-boston","tag-boston-elephant-art-installation","tag-coexistence","tag-commonwealth-avenue-mall","tag-conservation","tag-design","tag-display","tag-endangered-specie","tag-endangered-species","tag-entertainment","tag-exhibition","tag-fairfield-street","tag-habitat-loss","tag-india","tag-indian-elephant","tag-indian-elephant-sculpture","tag-indigenous-artisan","tag-indigenous-artisans","tag-massachusetts","tag-nilgiri-biosphere-reserve","tag-nilgiri-hills","tag-part","tag-poaching","tag-the-great-elephant-migration","tag-wcvb","tag-world-wildlife-federation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/804282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}