Who will really end up being baby elephant Navann’s aunties at Elephant Nature Park? At this moment it is anyone’s guess …
A few weeks ago we would have felt confident in saying that Mae Kham Paan was the recognized Number One Auntie and that Malai Tong and Mae Jarunee were a firm Number Two and Three. Mae Keow was a definite part-timer and recently Dani was even getting lots of quality time with Navann each morning.
Elephant Nature Park and Save Elephant Foundation wish to thank Supreme Master Ching Hai for an incredible donation of 100,000 USD!!! The Supreme Master is a compassionate animal lover and a staunch vegetarian. She is a practitioner of the Quan…
Now that baby elephant Navann is out and about all day, every day, things have became much more exciting in the social world here at Elephant Nature Park.
Navann and his growing brigade of aunties give everyone the feeling that there is hope for new relationships. ENP’s Navann is gaining new admirers with each passing day. There is hardly an elephant in the park whose life Navann has not touched in some way or another.
On 23 May, our new baby elephant, Dok Mai, made her first ever trip to the mud pit with her mom, Dok Ngern. More photos to come soon! Enjoy!
Our baby elephant Navann is seriously adorable! Don't you think?
MEDIA STATEMENT For immediate release 22 May 2013 The following is a statement from Save Elephant Foundation founder Sangduen “Lek” Chailert on behalf of Elephant Nature Park: “Recently Save Elephant Foundation has come under attack by detractors seeking to discredit…
Editor’s Note: Lena Quenard, from Switzerland, recently donated a very generous $14,000 USD to our Land Fund. She had been fundraising on her own with the goal of donating to help rescue an elephant. However, only two weeks ago, she read our post about our desperate need for more land. Thankfully, this story had an impact on her and she decided to change her mind and donate the money she had raised to our land fund instead.
Lena, Lek and members of the family herd as she donates money to Save Elephant Foundation to help purchase new land.
The land that will be purchased with her funds will have a very positive impact on the lives of the elephants here at Elephant Nature Park. A passionate animal lover, Lena is rather new to the elephant world — her life was changed when she met an elephant named Moey.
This is Lena’s story, written by her. If you are interested in donating, please click here.
Being a mahout at Elephant Nature Park is quite different than being a mahout elsewhere. We encourage our mahouts to let the elephants do what they want and not intervene unless it is necessary. If they have prior experience working…
April is a month of festivity for us here at Elephant Nature Park. Songkran, the Buddhist new year, followed by Faa Mai’s birthday along with ENP’s 10-year anniversary are cause of great celebration. Thanks to Dok Ngern and the wonders of nature, we now have yet another reason to be filled with happiness and merriment this year — the arrival of Dok Mai.
We do not often advertise the possibly pregnant females who are roaming about the park. Since the gestation period is from 18 to 22 months, the build up of waiting and excitement can drive you crazy. Here at Elephant Nature Park, based on activities witnessed on several occasions, we had a feeling that a few of our females were most likely expecting.
After the birth of Navann in late October, we started to pay much more attention to the bellies, breasts and behavior of our ladies who have been reproductively active in the past two years.
Oh, to be an elephant … to fully understand their conversations and body language. They know exactly what is going on with each other and who will give birth when.
We, on the other hand, can just wait.
This time, they tricked us.
Time flies!
It is hard to believe it has been 10 years since Elephant Nature Park’s humble beginnings at this location. When we first came to look at this land, it seemed to take forever to get from the front of the property to the river at the back. At that time the river was so narrow it didn’t seem possible that we would actually be able to bathe elephants in it!
