How an Orphaned Baby Elephant Became Inseparable From a Rescued Baby Giraffe
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How an Orphaned Baby Elephant Became Inseparable From a Rescued Baby Giraffe

What does an orphaned baby elephant and a rescued baby giraffe have in common? Well, nothing and yet everything, as the two have been inseparable since they were housed next to each other as stable mates at an orphanage providing care for the two calves. It hasn’t been long since Loboito came into this world … Continue reading »

Faa Mai “The Most Happy Elephant”   Oh How She Has Grown!
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Faa Mai “The Most Happy Elephant” Oh How She Has Grown!

Sometimes there is no other joy like being an elephant and with Faa Mai, the “first born free” elephant at Elephant Nature Park who came into this world on 17 April 2009, there is no holding back. She finds happiness in so much around her, in fact, that she has come to be called “the … Continue reading »

How To Sing an Elephant to Sleep :  The “Baby Elephant Lullaby” & One Contented Snoring Elephant
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How To Sing an Elephant to Sleep : The “Baby Elephant Lullaby” & One Contented Snoring Elephant

She was the first baby elephant born at the Elephant Nature Park (ENP) sanctuary on 17 April 2009 from ENP parents, (Mae Bua Tong is her mother). This little one, Faa Mai (Pha Mai), her name meaning “A New Day,” was never exposed to the cruelty that many other elephants in Thailand experience even to … Continue reading »

World Reacts to Poaching of Beloved Sumatran Elephant   #RIPYongki
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World Reacts to Poaching of Beloved Sumatran Elephant #RIPYongki

Another tragedy involving our elephants unfolded recently when an endangered Sumatran elephant was found dead not far from where he lived in the Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park. As WWF Indonesia reported the 34-year-old male, affectionately known as Yongki, was discovered after daybreak on 18 September 2015 by a Mahout actually looking for another “flying squad … Continue reading »

Left to Die in a Poacher’s Snare, Baby Elephant is Rescued After Horrendous Suffering
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Left to Die in a Poacher’s Snare, Baby Elephant is Rescued After Horrendous Suffering

Attacked and left for dead, after poachers found his tusks virtually non-existent, little Simotua was sighted by rescuers from The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust hanging to life from injuries to both his head and encircling his right front leg. (He was also found to be malnourished and dehydrated from his inability to walk any great … Continue reading »

GMFER: What We Need To Realize About Elephants  Part 2
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GMFER: What We Need To Realize About Elephants Part 2

  An Elephant’s Understanding of the Concept of Death “You’ve all heard about elephant graveyards? Of course that is a myth. But what is not a myth is the amount of attention that elephants pay to their own species.”     In the aftermath of the poaching crisis of the 1970’s Dr. Wasser arrived in … Continue reading »

GMFER: What We Need to Realize About Elephants     Part 1
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GMFER: What We Need to Realize About Elephants Part 1

“We are losing 50K elephants per year.” We have “only 470k elephants left on this planet.” “Habitat loss was traditionally the cause of dwindling wildlife populations, now poaching has overtaken this.” Illegal wildlife trafficking has become the 4th largest activity of the transnational organized crime networks, valued at $20 billion per year.   Are Elephants … Continue reading »

Elephant Nature Park Reunites Mother Elephant With Her Baby After Years Apart
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Elephant Nature Park Reunites Mother Elephant With Her Baby After Years Apart

Mama elephant Mae Yui and her calf MeBai shared a big hug as they wrapped their trunks around each after a gratifying reunion earlier this year, reports Jake Poldon for Daily Mail Online. With human intervention, and very caring humans at that, they were both relocated to the Elephant Nature Park in the Chiang Mai … Continue reading »

The 2nd U.S. #IvoryCrush in Times Square Takes NYC By Storm
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The 2nd U.S. #IvoryCrush in Times Square Takes NYC By Storm

In what promises to be a periodic event hosted by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (along with their “wildlife and conservation partners”) New York City welcomed environmental activists impassioned for the cause of saving our elephants.  The event, The 2nd U.S. #IvoryCrush, in Times Square, which was held on 19 June 2015, drew “wildlife … Continue reading »

How to Accommodate an Unexpected Baby Elephant Houseguest
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How to Accommodate an Unexpected Baby Elephant Houseguest

One morning (The People’s Daily along with The Daily Mail reported) in the tiny village of Ba Ka, in Yunnan, an unexpected houseguest came crashing through a bedroom wall. Upon hearing his daughter’s screams, Tie Wen rushed inside. Staring up at him appeared to be 220 pounds of baby elephant.  And it was. It was … Continue reading »