A city is the last place where you would expect to find an elephant. Their existence is heartbreaking. Without the forest, and sufficient food, Thai elephants won’t have a chance of survival. 'Bring the Elephant Home' is dedicated to create a better future for all Thai elephants. We hope to achieve this by stimulating animal friendly eco-tourism, creating habitat for elephants, growing food for elephants, creating alternatives for elephant families and by finding solutions to solve human-elephant conflicts. With our project Trees for Elephants we plant ten thousands of trees for wild and domesticated elephants every year. To be able to extend the Elephant Nature Park, we’ll organize Bike for Elephants on February 6 and 7. Read more... >>>
Bike for Elephants in the Bangkok Post
antoinette - 3 February 2010 07:02
Announcement our upcoming bike event in the Bangkok Post of February 1, 2010. By Arusa Pisuthipan.
Click more to read the whole article. (more…)
Bike for Elephants in Chang Puak magazine
antoinette - 1 February 2010 09:33
Join Bike for Elephants next weekend! Registration is still open. You are very welcome to join the Bring the Elephant Home team!
Click on the article to read it.
Or check the Bike for Elephants page on this website.
Upcoming event: From the city to the forest
Dutsadee - 12 January 2010 12:32
For the trees for elephant project in 2010, Recycle Paper for Trees project will cooperate with Bring the Elephant Home to restore the forest on our elephant island project in Buriram. In the year 2010 we aim to plant 15,000 native trees species together, in the area of 30 rai (12 acre) and some elephant food plants inside Lammat water park, Lam Plai Mat, Buriram. To start our joint project, we organize the volunteer program called “From the city to the forest, bring the elephant home and restore the community forest” during 23 - 24 January 2010.
During this weekend we need to plant 500 - 600 native tree species, take care of the planted trees (applying fertilizer and watering), plant banana trees, plant coconut trees and other elephant food plants and cut banana trees for Nok Noi and Sri Prae. All volunteers will stay with the villagers (homestay) and will work together with the local people. The group of Recycle Paper for Trees project and Bring the Elephant Home will join this event (45 pax), as well as the local people from the villages. Other volunteers are very welcome to join, but need to pay for the costs themselves.
New mahout house and elephant shelter housewarming ceremony
antoinette - 4 January 2010 22:09
On 14th of December, 2009 the elephant fund committees of Baan Pai Noi and Baan Pai Yai arranged the mahout house-warming ceremony on the elephant island. The construction of the mahout house was just finished at the beginning of December 2009, the elephant shelter was finished in October 2009 already. The construction of the mahout house has been sponsored by the students of the Green Campus College from the Netherlands. The students joined Bring the Elephant Home as volunteers for our Trees for Elephants project in June 2009 and worked together with many others: the villagers of Baan Pai Noi and Baan Pai Yai, partner organization- PDA, the local government and the mahout families. The ceremony has been organized to bless both elephants and the new mahout family. From now on they will live on the island to take care of the elephants all the time. (more…)
Season’s Greetings
antoinette - 2 January 2010 14:39
Dear friends and sponsors of Bring the Elephant Home,
With the end of an animated 2009 near, I would like to wish you an inspiring and loving 2010. In 2010 we will continue to plead for more respect for the Thai elephant and nature. Recently, Bring the Elephant Home has celebrated its fifth anniversary, and looking back on the past five years we are quite proud of what we have achieved. From a dream of rescuing two street elephants, to a starting organization with a few projects, to a truly flourishing organization with long term projects. Our methods have not really changed, and our passion certainly has not diminished. Bring the Elephant Home always tries to swing into action quickly and enthusiastically. This enthusiasm is catching; we now have an active network of people who regularly join us. A solid foundation to do more for the Thai elephant in the future. (more…)
Evaluation of BTEH - Anglia Ruskin University
antoinette - 30 December 2009 15:17
An evaluation of Bring the Elephant Home’s campaign for a better future for Thai elephants, by:
Annie Hughes
Anglia Ruskin University - Cambridge Campus
BSc Animal Behaviour and Animal Welfare
Year three module - Animal Welfare and Society
Module brief - Evaluation of an animal welfare campaign
Click here to read the publication.
Chang Yim growing up happily
antoinette - 10 December 2009 07:32
Chang Yim entertains the ENP visitors every day. In the afternoon many people are following Chang Yim’s adventures from the viewing bridge in the park. Together with Faa Mai he is running around the park, looking for new games and tricks to enjoy. Like chasing the new elephant Rara, or playing in the sand bath with all the youngsters. Chang Yim has his own mahout now, Mong, and they became close friends. Mong has a lot of experience with baby elephants, so he knows exactly how to deal with the naughty Chang Yim. They play with each other, and while playing Mong taught Chang Yim many commands already. Chang Yim is learning even faster than Faa Mai. But he’s still a bit wild, and very naughty. Often he is just running around and chasing everybody near him. Except Mong. He’s growing so fast that soon he will be too strong to control easily. He tries his strenght with many other elephants, like the two year old Thong Tae. But if he get scared of something, he runs to his mother Dok Ngeon for protection. Chang Yim loves his aunt Malai Thong, who always keeps an eye on him. At night Chang Yim sleeps often besides Malai Thong, because she is much more calm than his own mother. The huge snoring Malai Thong, with Chang Yim safely curling up against her… so beautiful.
From left to right on this video: Dok Ngeon, Chang Yim, Faa Ma, Malai Thong and Thong Jan.
Click more for two more videos of Chang Yim: (more…)
New arrival at ENP: Rara
antoinette - 5 December 2009 06:11
Last October the elephant Rara arrived at the Elephant Nature Park.
When she was only one , she was taken kicking and screaming away from her mother to be trained. After her training she was taken to a luxury hotel in the seaside resort of Krabi.
Since then, she has been used to welcome and entertain guests. Her routine remained the same for six years. She would be taken to either the hotel lobby, or some other area when she grew, for an hour in the morning to meet and greet guests. They could feed her bananas and fruit and could take pictures with her. Then in the afternoon she would be taken to the beach for an hour so she could swim and play in the ocean, which she loved, and again guests could take pictures, feed her and sometimes swim with her. Aside from these regular outings, and some additional play time while she was walking to and from them, she would remain chained in her house on very short chain. Her knowledge of the world was contained within the area between her house and the main hotel area. (more…)
“Happy faces” for jumbos
antoinette - 3 December 2009 10:31
Move elephants from Bangkok’s mean streets to natural habitats
Published in MCOT English News, last update: 30 November 2009.
Scenes of hungry, unemployed elephants wandering the crowded streets of Bangkok begging for food and money from tourists and urbanites may soon be a memory after the Thai capital’s municipal government—the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration, (the BMA or City Hall)—recently kicked off strict new measures to ban the elephants from the streets and enlist help from the Provincial Administrative Organisation in the northeastern province of Surin, home to large numbers of both pachyderms and their handlers, the mahouts, in an attempt to find a lasting and sustainable solution to the problem. (more…)
Fundraising ideas for Bike for Elephants
antoinette - 26 November 2009 07:26
Some ideas to get started to raise money for your bike team. The fundraising events are not just to find sponsors, but you will generate awareness too. Enjoy organizing your event!
Create your team page on our website
Introduces your team, announce your fundraising events, track your fundraising efforts, thank donors and get online donations. Send links to your page to all your contacts. We can design a banner for your team to promote your bike team on other websites.
The sponsor book
Carry your sponsorship book with you at all times - you never know when and where you’ll find people wanting to sponsor your team.
Encourage your employer to match your fundraising.
For every baht you raise, your employer sponsors a baht too. And ask your colleagues to start sponsoring.
Sell merchandising
Get some Bike for Elephants merchandising (with BTEH logo) produced: T shirts, pencils, caps, key chains, bags, stickers. Ask restaurants, shops, friends, your social club to buy / sell the merchandising. (more…)
