eleblog

“Last Monday, I had a chance to visit the Elephant Reintroduction Foundation’s camp at Ban Hua Thung in Lampang’s Hang Chat district. There, I witnessed the way that elephants are being trained to live in the wild, eating the plants available to them in the forest. Feeding by humans is not allowed. These elephants were domesticated or had worked with teak logs in the past, but the foundation bought them from their owners with the intention of returning them to their natural habitat. But before any elephant can be returned, it needs to be trained so that it can adapt itself to life in the wild.” - The Nation

“The proprietor of an elephant camp in Thailand’s northern province of Chiang Mai has purchased insurance for his elephants to show to the kind and clever animals on Valentine’s Day.” - MCOT

“An elephant camp located here in the Malayatoor Forest Division is under Herpes virus threat, which has already taken lives of two young baby calves.
The camp, which was once a hot tourist destination in the Kerala map for being a unique elephant orphanage, is facing tough time with the outbreak of the viral disease.
Forest officials have started transferring elephants to nearby areas to avoid worsening of the situation, and have sprinkled bleaching powder and phenol to control the infection.” - Thaindian News

“The Kerala government on Sunday ordered a probe into the death of two baby elephants at a camp for the pachyderms at Kodanad in Ernakulam district.” - The Hindu