The elephants are hitting the road again.
An exhibit featuring 100 life-sized Indian elephant sculptures, titled “The Great Elephant Migration,” will leave the city’s Meatpacking District on Sunday, Oct. 20.
The public can catch a glimpse of the herd at several locations, primarily along Ninth Avenue, including at Gansevoort Plaza, West 14th and 15th streets, Christopher Street, Horatio Street and near the Whitney Museum.
Each “one-of-a-kind” sculpture was handcrafted using stalks of Lantana camara by artisans living in India’s Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, a protected forest area in South India, the Meatpacking District Management Association .
The invasive plant species “has entangled 300,000 square kilometers of India’s forests and diminished
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