Into the New Year.

The years have flown by since Elephant Nature Park moved to the present location, and the elephant herd has grown as well. For those of us who have been around for a long time, including those of you that have been making return trips over and over again throughout the years, it has been a treat watching Hope and Jungle Boy and Thong Jaan grow up. Hope and Jungle Boy are in the process of accelerated growth spurts it seems. They have become 'big little elephants' and both of them are now just about the same size of their respective number one aunties, (Jae Perm and Mae Keow).

There have been tears of joy and tears of sadness as new eles are rescued, some from horrific circumstances like Medo, Faa Sai or Mae Bua Loy, and then on the other side of it, hearts get broken when leased elephants that stayed with us for years, like Mae Tor Kor and Pupia, inevitably go back to their owners and a life of exploitation. Sadly, we can't save them all, at least not yet.....but Elephannt Nature Park continues to do it's best to try to make the lives of the Thai elephant (and dogs, cats, cows and water buffalo) better; one elephant at a time. An important factor to saving elephants is inspiring humans to care enough about the world's dwindling elephant population, to want to try to do something about it. Just getting to share some time with some of our amazing elephants here in the park and hearing some of their stories are enough to do this. getting to know an elephant can change your life

The project could not exist without all of you wonderful animal loving people out there, who have continued to support the park through the years, with donations, fundraising, repeat visits, your hard work volunteering, by adopting an animal from the park, creating awareness back in your home countries, spreading the word about Elephant Nature Park and talking people out of the more traditional exploitative elephant tourist traps. We appreciate all of your love and moral support and all of the wonderful things you have done to help the park grow into such a wonderful place for elephants to exist peacefully.  May we continue to make our park a  better place for elephants so they may thrive for many generations to come?

Art for Elephant Sake

Scott Hitchcock has been working on some hand painted murals with local Thai artists to get an important message across.. Their art is located on the sides of buildings in Bangkok and with the full permission of the owners. The message on these murals explains to visitors and expats alike that it is wrong to give begging elephants food offered by their handlers as this is condemning the elephant to street begging and an early death.

 

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Newsletters Past, Present, and Future

Readers and lovers of our Park eles, rest assured if we don't mention an elephant in every newsletter it doesn’t mean that something unforeseen has happened to that elephant. Some periods of time are not as newsworthy as others for all of our elephants. But this just leaves readers with more to look forward to in the next newsletter.

Art for Elephants Sake (continued ...)