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 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.
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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.
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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.
