Elephant Highlands – A Home for Eternity

Wed 27 Jul 16
Elephant Highlands

Around 4 months after we took three elephants from Elephant Nature Park to Elephant Highlands, we look at how the elephants are settling into the wilderness area.

This project is surrounded with rich forest and suitable for elephants and also other species to stay peacefully on the whole mountain.

KhamPaeng

MaePon

NongPop

KhamSaen is surrounded by Nannies at Elephant Highlands Project

Baby boy KhamSaen is thriving at the Elephant Highlands project. He is surrounded by the love of his nannies MaePon, Khampaeng, and NongPop. MaePon is particularly smitten with KhamSaen and attends to his every need like a devoted mother.

Sun 04 Feb 24

An incredible transformation of Kham Pang.

A beautiful transformation of KhamPaeng, the elephant who was rescued 3 months ago.

Kham Pang is an older elephant in her 50’s, who was rescued from a camp along the Myanmar – Thai border where she did elephant riding for about 12 years. When the owner of Kham Pang called, asking for help, due to the financial crisis relating to the pandemic of Covid-19, we decided to rescue…

Tue 04 May 21

Kham Pang is a very tall female elephant

Elephant Of The Week: KhamPaeng

KhamPaeng (Golden Girl) was born around 1980. She has spent most of her life working in trekking camps. When she was young, she had to perform in elephant shows and once old enough, endured the trekking seat and was used to give rides. She was rescued and arrived to begin her new life at ENP…

Wed 29 Mar 17

Elephant Highlands Pumpkin Problem

Elephant Highlands project is set high up in the mountains of Chiang Mai province and we can see in this video, the low clouds covering much of the landscape. The are 3 elephants at Highlands project, MaePon, love her friend Khampaeng and NongPop. MaePon love pumpkins and we can see she is very protective of her favourite food and not sharing the pumpkins with her friends.

Fri 06 Jan 17

Elephant Highlands

In March of 2016, three elephants were escorted to Ban Lao by a group of volunteers. NongPop, KhamPaeng, and MaePon were chosen to live in this new area because they are physically healthy and able to climb mountain sides if needed.

Thu 02 Jun 16

Journey to Elephant Highlands from Elephant Nature Park

A 2 day 1 night journey of 3 elephants walking through the jungle more than 20 kilometers from Elephant Nature Park to their new home in the remote jungle mountains near Ban Lao northern Thailand. They will live a life of complete freedom, roaming through the jungle during the day and housed safely in their beautiful compound with the swimming pool at night in Elephant Highlands.

Wed 23 Mar 16

The Loved and Lost

Many people believe they have witnessed elephants crying, whether they are in poor conditions in captivity or being rescued for a new life, we take their tears as a demonstration of their feelings. To date there is no evidence that the tears of an elephant are linked to their emotions. We do however know that…

Mon 29 Feb 16

Baby elephant Han Sa and the mother MaePon having a wonderful day with the mud bath at ENP.

After spent a while for quarantine in the shelter, yesterday was a great time to enjoy ENP environment. Han Sa the two years old girl and her mother MaePon, our new family member have released to the field, they had so much fun with their first mud bath. You can see how much they enjoy.…

Thu 02 Jul 15

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