Dani is a female elephant who was born around the mid 1960’s. She arrived at Elephant Nature Park from the Tak province on November 30th, 2010. She was rescued from illegal logging. The funds for Dani’s rescue were donated by Bob Barker from the USA. Her original name was Mo Blee which was a Karen hilltribe word that describes fear or shyness. Lek wished to change her name and Bob Barker requested that she be named after a friend of his named Dan Stone.

Many details of Dani’s history are unknown. She has probably lived along the Thai-Burma border for her entire life. Once she was old enough to start doing heavy labor, she began her career as a logging elephant working all up and down the border, in both Thailand and Burma. Most recently she was working inside the Karen state in Burma. Because of the long running civil war between the Karen and the military oppressors of Burma, fighting breaks out on a regular basis and it is very dangerous for elephants to be working in the forests. Being shot or stepping on a landmine are very real possibilities.