Bring The Elephant Home

Coming soon: first elephant walk to the jungle

In the middle of the rainy season, we are planting trees in the Elephant Jungle almost every week, with the help of many volunteers from the Elephant Nature Park. Our tree nursery is blooming. The different seeds we collected around the land over the last few months have germinated and help us to restore the forest quickly.

Since December 2010 we have been working at the Elephant Jungle, and we achieved many projects already. Such as the construction of the education center / seed house, built entirely by volunteers and by using natural materials as much as possible. A lot of work, but it’s almost finished now and looks beautiful. Next week we will finish the plastering and start decorating the building. We made a water reservoir and installed a water system, so we have water all year round now, we are less vulnerable to leakage or drought and we can plant trees throughout the year. Especially now in the rainy season many things are growing and flourishing on the land. Some trees we have planted two years ago, are now about 3 meters high already. The land looks much greener and more diverse compared to last year. The road to the land, remains a weak part. The most dangerous places on the way have been improved, but after a heavy monsoon downpour, we can hardly reach the project site. But perhaps an Elephant Jungle should be poorly accessible.

We are now almost ready to walk the first elephants to explore the jungle! This week we did a last survey of the trail from the Elephant Nature Park to the Elephant Jungle. This month we hope to bring the young bull Hope and his girlfriend Sai Yai to the jungle for a three days holiday, so we can slowly start to get used to having elephants on the land. More details soon! Click “more’ for the pictures of recent activities.