Bring The Elephant Home & Trees for Elephants (EN)

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 have already planted about 200,000 trees for wild and domesticated elephants. To be able to extend the Elephant Nature Park, we’ll organize Bike for Elephants on January 15 and 16 2011. Read more... >>>

Update elephant island

^{antoinette - 10 May 2010 18:48}

It is low season in Thailand, there is a political conflict, and the Isarn is at its hottest. Because of this there have been few visitors to the island. Fortunately, the village banks have created some financial reserves from a large group in January, so there is little reason to panic. In a month’s time business will pick up again, and the first groups have already been booked. For those doubting whether it is wise to go to Thailand: the area surrounding the elephant island and the Elephant Nature Park is absolutely quiet and safe!

The island has seen some mahout changes. Fortunately, we have been able to find a good new mahout, who has taken up residence at the mahout house. Step by step we are improving this house. Soon we will be installing a water pump: for the mahouts, the elephants, and the planted trees. And together with the district manager we are working on getting electricity cables to the island.

The elephants are having a good life on the island. Even in the dry season the island is still green enough and there’s enough water. (more…)

Celebrate World Environment Day with us: From the City to the Forest

^{Dutsadee - 5 May 2010 13:11}

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.

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Dance for Elephants in Bangkok Post

^{antoinette - 25 March 2010 18:56}

Dance for Elephants in the Bangkok Post of today. Click here to read the article.

Photography exhibition ‘Elephant Emotional Intelligence’

^{antoinette - 21 March 2010 20:10}

At Dance for Elephants (Lush, Friday March 26 in Bangkok) the photography exhibition ‘Elephant Emotional Intelligence’ by Azriel Cohen will be launched. This exhibition is specially created for this event and to support Thai elephants. (more…)

Dance for Elephants: Lush Green Night Out

^{antoinette - 16 March 2010 19:01}

LUSH – Bangkok’s Green Night Out – Friday the 26th of March.

Helping street begging elephants was never so easy and fun: On Friday March 26 we invite you to join Dance for Elephants to create a better future for Thai elephants.

All profits of the event will go to our village-level sustainable development project in Thailand’s Buriram province. Together with the local villagers we are developing an elephant island and animal friendly tourism to make sure people and elephants can live together in harmony, and elephants that are roaming in the cities can return home.

Dance for Elephants at LUSH – Bangkok’s Green Night Out

Start Time: Friday, 26 March 2010 at 21:00
End Time: Saturday, 27 March 2010 at 03:00
Location: F Studio Bar
Street: Intercontinental Hotel - Gaysorn Plaza Road - Chitlom BTS Station
Town/City: Bangkok, Thailand

Four international DJs will make this party the place to be in an exceptional setting in the heart of Bangkok.
- Bar side: Charly T (hip hop) & State Radio (colourful beats and pop anthems).
- Street area: Dj Verse@ille (funk) & Sir Jul (house)

Special participation of Guimus (percussions), BiTiKé (piano) and Win Waterfade (saxophone). Live visual performances will be provided by Chanon (painting) & The Wet Carpets (video). Special features will include a photography exhibition ‘Elephant Emotional Intelligence’ by Azriel Cohen, with photos for sale, as well as a booth of Bring the Elephant Home with T-shirts, books, DVDs and other items.

From 9pm to 3am – entrance 200 THB including one beer – 100 THB per beer all night long
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This event is a partnership between Bring the Elephant Home, Green Networking Days, In Search Of Sanuk and UB Radio.

Bike for Elephants video

^{antoinette - 3 March 2010 07:37}

We hope to see you all at Bike for Elephants 2011!

Bike for Elephants report by Joost Konijn (8 years)

^{antoinette - 15 February 2010 12:02}

Bike for Elephants participant Joost Konijn (8 years old) raised 10,000 baht for the elephants all by himself. By doing this, and for being such a great biker during the whole event, he won one of the Bike for Elephants awards. After the event he wrote this report to thank his sponsors. Thank you so much for all your support, Joost! Hopefully see you again next year.

bike-for-elephants-report-joost

Article about Bring the Elephant Home in the Bangkok Post

^{antoinette - 14 February 2010 13:29}

Article in the Bangkok Post of Februari 13, 2010. By khun Arusa Pisuthipan. Click the picture to read the article online.

Bike for Elephants raised 250,000 baht

^{antoinette - 9 February 2010 12:36}

During the first weekend of February 2010 Bring the Elephant Home organized its first Bike for Elephants event. A two day adventurous and fun tour through Mae Tang valley, in Chiang Mai province. With the event Bring the Elephant Home was able to raise 250,000 baht (5,485 euro) for the Elephant Nature Park and to create more awareness about the plight of Thai elephants. The money will be used to extend the Park, to make sure more elephants can have a natural life in the future.

Bike for Elephants was joined by 50 Thai and international participants and volunteers, age arranging from 2 years till 64 years old and from many different nationalities. All with the same purpose: to create a better future for Thai elephants. Besides two days of biking (81 km in total) the bikers experienced camping in the Elephant Nature Park, camp fire, local music, many inspiring stories and of course elephant bathing and feeding. Most participants are living in Thailand, but for many this was the first time to observe free roaming elephants living in family groups. The combination of working hard during the bike ride, spending time together with elephants in nature and making a difference for Thai elephants created a very positive atmosphere. Everybody agreed that if they can, they will participate again next year.

Click more to see the pictures of the event (more…)