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Hey, everybody. Welcome back to another episode of I do Part 2, Brian Austin Green, and I am speaking with Shannon Elizabeth, and we've had an amazing conversation so far. So we want to get back into this.

Let's get into a little bit of what it is you do, because people hear you're an an animal activist which a lot of people hear about other people you again you're you're talking to me from south africa right now

so you're really doing it like you are you are in this you're going you're going strong so

tell me a little bit about how this started and what it is you do now.

Okay.

So after American Pie, it was my first time I was in a position to start giving back.

And I knew animals was my mission on the planet to help animals.

And my partner and I at the time, we went to all the

animal rescues around town and decided we're going to do this ourselves. And so we started the charity

Animal Avengers. And that was in 2001. After running it that way for over 10 years, I just knew I wanted to help more animals on a

bigger scale. I didn't know what that looked like yet and just went on this journey of discovery.

And eventually I was led to New York. I went to an ivory and rhino horn crush and met a lot

of conservationists there.

And so I started following all these conservation organizations online.

And one night I was getting ready to go out and something said to me, check Instagram.

So I checked Instagram.

I didn't know what I was looking for.

And I ran across this video of a ranger in the field. And he's scanning with his phone what he sees in front of him. And you see a trunk of an elephant off to the side.

And then you see kind of, you could just kind of make out the face and the body. And you hear him say,

this poor baby's been out here all night suffering.

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