The Elephant Parade, part of an international awareness-raising campaign, arrived to Luxembourg and Trier in mid July 2013, and was received with a lot of enthusiasm and joy by the public.The 95 mini-elephants (weighing more than 600 kg and about 1.65 m in height) displayed in both cities create a very pleasant visual effect for locals and tourists alike, providing a luxurious palette of colours and designs.They promote a good cause and were therefore created to draw attention to the endangered Asian elephant. At the end of the parade, on October 18, a selection of works will be auctioned and 70 percent of proceeds from the sale will go to the “The Asian Elephant Foundation”.