A group of elephants, Amboseli National Park, Kenya (© Ibrahim Suha Derbent/Getty Images)

On 12 August, World Elephant Day shines a spotlight on the world's African and Asian elephants and the urgent need to protect them. In places like Amboseli National Park in Kenya, captured in this image, a herd doesn't simply pass through the landscape—it remembers it. Matriarchs guide their families between water sources, following routes shaped as much by memory as by terrain.