Slowly, positive changes are happening, thanks to Lek, the wonderful founder of Elephant Nature Park.
Save Elephant Foundation’s Sangduen “Lek” Chailert, along with a group of volunteers, recently freed five elephants from Sai Yok elephant camp. Their new home is at Erawan Paradise, located in Kanchanaburi, in midwestern Thailand.
Located approximately 50 kilometers from Kanchanaburi, Thailand, the Erawan Elephant Retirement Park is the newest project sponsored by the Save Elephant Foundation. The first five elephants to call the park home arrived in early July, 2013. All the resident elephants are former tourism elephants, rescued from trekking camps, street-begging or performance shows.
Spread over 50 acres, the facility operates similarly to Elephant Nature Park and volunteers will help maintain the retirement property, as well as assist the mahouts with the elephants.
Watch the movie via the link below – it’s fantastic to see this stuff happening.
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Hi there,
I really want to go to Erawan in December but cannot seem to find any contact details for them anywhere! Any advice on where to look?
Thanks so much
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Erawan Elephant Retirement Park is about an hour’s drive from Kanchanaburi in south west Thailand, near the Myanmar border. They’re apparently closed for renovations at the moment. To enquire further, go to: http://www.saveelephant.org/contact/ and send them an email, saying you wish to volunteer at Erawan. Let me know how it goes. 😀
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