Help Nonprofit Rescue Elephant After Tragedy
Help Nonprofit Rescue Elephant After Tragedy
Help Nonprofit Rescue Elephant After Tragedy
Help Nonprofit Rescue Elephant After Tragedy
Help Nonprofit Rescue Elephant After Tragedy
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Help Nonprofit Rescue Elephant After Tragedy
http://conservenaturalforests.org/
We are a small nonprofit organization who needs your help to rescue an elephant. A few months ago, we suffered a devastating loss when our two elephants, Mae Moon and Mae Kamjan, were taken from our safe, natural project site and sent back to their former working conditions at an elephant riding camp. We lost a big part of our family that day.
However, we must continue what we have started. Pulling together our resources, we recently rescued Mae Kamee, a beautiful female who is currently enjoying her sudden increase in free time on our 80,000 sq. meter land. But elephants are social creatures. She needs a friend. We have already found the perfect companion for Kamee in a young 5 year old named Kajaa, who was taken from her mother at the age of 3 and put to work in an elephant camp. Unfortunately, as we are a small nonprofit, at this time we lack the funding to rescue Kajaa. We have learned a great deal from our experience with Mae Moon and Mae Kamjan, and this time, we want to be certain that nobody can take our elephants away. Everything else is ready for Kajaa to be relocated to a happier home. All we need is your help.
Conserve Natural Forest (CNF) is a small nonprofit in northern Thailand whose mission is to restore ecosystems damaged by human disturbance and rehabilitate critically endangered animal species by using practical, proven methods as well as educating the local community about the importance of environmental conservation. Last year, we planted over 190,000 endemic tree species throughout the Mae Hong Son and Chiang Mai provinces. We have the invaluable support of the local community, including nearby residents, university students, primary schoolchildren, and the local government, to help us restore their land. In 2016, we rescued two heavily pregnant elephants – Mae Moon and Mae Kamjan – from a nearby riding camp with a plan to release them to a wildlife sanctuary national park after they gave birth. This year, we are expanding our operations to include mangrove restoration and the re-establishment of a safe breeding ground for sea turtles in the Tarutao National Park off the Thai peninsula.
Mae Moon and Mae Kamjan
Earlier this year, in June, our organization suffered a devastating loss. Not far from finishing our monthly payments for Moon and Kamjan, the owners exploited a severance clause in our contract and took the elephants back to their original site. They have decided to capitalize on the elephants’ pregnancy and garner profit off their future children. It breaks our hearts to think of these beautiful animals enduring the retraining process while pregnant. Sadly, and despite all our efforts, we are unable to get Moon or Kamjan back. The owners have severed contact and refuse any offer we make to them. This will always be a sad spot in our lives.
But we must continue our work. Recently, we rescued a 37-year-old female named Mae Kamee from an elephant camp. The picture below speaks for itself: she’s lovely. We are very excited for her to roam our land undisturbed, with as much natural food as she wants and the Pai river to keep her cool and hydrated. Her waste will fertilize the land and germinate seeds for our reforestation project. Her natural splendor will attract visitors to learn more about forest and wildlife conservation. And hopefully, we can safely and successfully help her reproduce, and one day restore her and her child to their natural habitat.
Mae Kamee
The thing is, we need help. Kamee needs a friend. Elephants are highly social animals that depend on the company of their kind for their health and well-being. Unfortunately, we simply do not have the resources to rescue another elephant. Again, we are a small organization, supported almost entirely out-of-pocket by the founder and director, Miguel Tenorio. The logistics of buying, transporting, feeding, and rehabilitating an elephant are extremely expensive and time consuming, and we are already stretching ourselves thin with just one. In order to ensure that what happened with Mae Moon and Mae Kamjan never happens again, we have resolved to do away with monthly payment contracts and buy each elephant outright. This requires a huge investment on our part. Everything else is prepared: the land is green and bursting with delicious elephant treats, the river is flowing, the elephant keepers are standing by. Any donation will go a long way toward helping us rebuild our family here at Conserve Natural Forests.