The Long Road to Helping All Elephants

The Long Road to Helping All Elephants

This is a guest post by Steve Koyle of Elephant Care Unchained. The captive elephant is a tragic story. Throughout my 20 years of caring for elephants I’ve seen and witnessed a lot of pain and suffering. More so since I’ve established Elephant Care Unchained in 2016....
Elephants in the Anthropocene Rewilding

Elephants in the Anthropocene Rewilding

The word Anthropocene has been described as the ‘great acceleration caused by humans’ originating from the words ‘anthropo’ which in Greek translates to human, and ‘cene’ translates to new. In this new era, Earth has undeniably...
Building a Sanctuary: It Takes More Than Love

Building a Sanctuary: It Takes More Than Love

This is a guest post by Scott Blais who manages, with Kat Haselau Blais,  Global Sanctuary for Elephants in Brazil. Working with and, more importantly, for elephants is an extraordinary life, and providing them with the freedoms of sanctuary leaves us at a loss for...
Nutritious Food vs Junk in the Trunk

Nutritious Food vs Junk in the Trunk

In the wild, elephants eat mostly grass, wild fruits, twigs, shrubs, bamboo and a variety of plants. Their main food source is grass when it is available to them. Elephants will also happily eat tree bark, plant roots and even soil. Elephants are herbivores and...
Nepal Elephant Walk Sanctuary

Nepal Elephant Walk Sanctuary

(This blog post is reproduced with permission from Animal Nature Connect) Early December 2019 while in Sauraha Nepal I reached out to Sudha Dhakal by email. Sudha was listed as the contact person for a new elephant sanctuary I wished to visit – I read this sanctuary...