Celebrate World Environment Day with us: From the City to the Forest
A weekend filled with fun, inspiration and hard work to save the world. Aim of this project is to create natural and animal friendly alternatives for ex street begging elephants and their families.
During this event we aim to plant 12,000 native trees species together, in the area of 30 rai (12 acre) inside Lammat water park, Lam Plai Mat, Buriram. Besides planting at least 12,000 trees for elephants on World Environment Day, we would like to reduce our eco-footprint on the elephant island even more. The weekend is carbon neutral, we promote a vegetarian lifestyle and limit our garbage and energy use.
Saturday 5/6/2010
1.30 P.M: Arrival of the volunteers. Welcome by BTEH, Recycle Paper Project, village leaders and elephant fund committees with a welcome drink.
2.00 P.M: Big tree planting event with local villagers. Aim is to plant 12,000 trees during the weekend.
4.30 P.M: Visit elephants, feed the elephants and relax at riverside.
5.30 P.M: Check in homestay houses in Baan Pai Yai and Baan Pai Noi villages. Walk around the villages and relax.
7.00 P.M: Dinner at the homestay houses.
8.00 P.M: Welcome and friendship ceremony. Traditional Isarn dance performance by kids of Baan Pai Yai.
Sunday 6/6/2010
7:30 A.M: Breakfast at homestay houses.
8.00 A.M: Meet up at Baan Pai Yai village hall. Join the villagers with rice planting or finish tree planting.
10.30 A.M: Cut banana trees, cut and peel elephant food, plant elephant food.
12.00 A.M: Picnic lunch (Isarn food) near Lammas river and feed the elephants .
1.00 P.M: Tree maintenance (weeding, applying fertilizer and watering) and garbage collecting.
3.30 P.M: Check out homestay houses, goodbyes to elephants and the villagers and travel back to Bangkok.
9.30 P.M: Arrive Bangkok
Accommodation & food
You will stay with your Isarn family for the weekend. This means we divide the volunteer group into smaller groups to stay in some houses. In the house you will have a room with your roommate, with fan and mosquito net. We provide all meals (Thai), water, coffee, tea. If you have special requests, please let us know in advance. Snacks and other drinks can be bought in the village.
Cost for volunteer weekend program during 5 – 6 June 2010 (2 days / 1 night) is 1,000 Baht/person (exclude transportation cost). An extra donation for the elephant fund would be appreciated.
Transport
By own vehicle:
From Bangkok drive up to Mittraphap road to Saraburi and then turn right to Nakon Ratchasima(highway no.226) – Chakkarat – Huai Thalaeng – Lam Plai Mat district. In front of the gate to Lammat water park you will see the big elephants friendly tourism sign. Driving directions from Bangkok to Lam Plai Mat, Buri Ram, Thailand; 336 km – about 5 hours 15 mins, click here
By public bus: Recommend Nakorn Chai Air bus (www.nca.co.th). Volunteers have to leave from Bangkok to Buriram at 8.30 A.M and can go back to Bangkok at 5.10 P.M in the next day. The ticket cost is about 350 Baht for a round trip. The drive will take about 6 hours from Bangkok. BTEH staff will pick you up and send you to Buriram bus station
This event is a partnership between Bring the Elephant Home, PDA, the Recycle Paper for Trees project and Lush Bangkok’s Green Night Out.
Note : For everyone who interested in our volunteer program but can’t come to join the tree planting volunteer event in Buriram: please support the project by sponsoring some seedlings! Click here to donate online for Trees for Elephants. For 10 euro we can plant 10 trees during this weekend. The local villagers will take care of the trees until the forest recover.
Thank you very much for all support.
