The Big Egg Hunt

Around 200 artists, celebrities and designers created and painted metre-high fibreglass eggs which were then placed in selected locations in London.

Elephant Parade raised around £4m for elephant-related charities through sponsorship and by selling the individual works of art at auction.

Among the artists contributing designs were Sir Peter Blake, Polly Morgan, the Chapman Brothers, Vivienne Westwood, Giles Deacon, Zandra Rhodes, Diane von Fürstenberg, Sophie Dahl, Martin Aveling, cartoonist Alex Williams, artist and banker Shivani Mathur and film director Sir Ridley Scott.

[9] Following the theft, Elephant Family founder Mark Shand was reported as saying that the other eggs had been secured and were now "unstealable.

[12] Around 30 of the eggs were auctioned on 20 March in front of a celebrity audience at the Royal Courts of Justice, where a total of £667,000 was raised for the two charities.