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“Lao’s only sanctuary that offers an undisturbed natural environment with professional staff and world-class facilities” – We Are Lao. “One of the world’s best places to see elephants” – Wanderlust. “The ECC breeding program seeks to (re)create sustainable breeding populations in the wild” – The Diplomat. “Ici (…) les éléphants vivent en paix.”
ECORE - Elephant Conservation Center
The Elephant conservation Center (ECC) was established in 2010 in Sayaboury, in the North-West of Laos, by ElefantAsia NGO founders. The ECC runs several in-situ research and conservation programmes and takes care of 30 Asian elephants (19 cows, 9 bulls and 2 calves) on a land spanning 540 hectares.
Laos’ Elephants Take to the Road to Save Their Forest Home
2016年2月1日 · For 45 days, three to 12 elephants and their mahouts had walked 273 miles across two major provinces of Lao People’s Democratic Republic—Sayaboury and Luang Prabang—to reacquaint Laotians with their cultural and natural heritage and to draw attention to the plight of the nation’s rapidly disappearing elephant population.
Elephant Sanctuaries in Laos – 3 Ethical Picks - South East Asia ...
2023年7月12日 · 3 Ethical Elephant Sanctuaries in Laos . 1. Elephant Conservation Centre – Sayaboury Province; 2. MandaLao Elephant Sanctuary – Luang Prabang; 3. Mekong Elephant Park, Pakbeng; Honourable Mention – Save Elephant Foundation Laos
Laos looking after its Elephants — Where Wild Things Roam
2024年12月9日 · Laos, a country traversed by the Mekong River and mountainous terrain, is affectionately known as the Kingdom of a Million Elephants. Centuries ago, the kingdom that made up much of modern-day Laos was called Lan Xang, which translates to “Land of a …
As Laos develops, can it make space for wild elephants?
2023年6月5日 · LUANG PRABANG, LAOS ― Mae Sengchan and Mae Kham meandered down to the banks of the Mekong River in Laos, munching on bunches of bananas and piles of sugarcane. In their mid-to-late-fifties, the rescued pair of endangered Asian elephants are far past their logging days.
Elephant Conservation Center - International Elephant Project
The ECC works on the preservation of the Lao elephant population, both wild and those under human care. With the former increasingly under pressure from poaching and deforestation and the latter declining due to ageing, over-exploitation …
Endangered Asian Elephants Find Nature Sanctuary In Laos - NPR
2019年5月12日 · Centuries ago, the kingdom that made up much of modern-day Laos was called Lan Xang. In English: "Land of a Million Elephants." Yet while the Asiatic elephant may have endured as a cultural...
Mandalao Elephant Conservation – Elephant Conservation in Laos
To help visitors connect with elephants in the most natural way possible in elephant tourism today. It is our hope that this knowledge will spread, promoting increasingly humane and ethical treatment of elephants across Laos and beyond its borders. We preserve and protect both captive elephants and those who remain in the wild.
Saving Laos’ Last Elephants - International Elephant Project
2022年5月11日 · With their numbers dwindling to as low as 800 individuals, Laos’ elephants are on the brink of Extinction. Our partner Elephant Conservation Center (ECC) is working in the Nam Pouy Biodiversity Area, racing against time to save a population of 50 elephants from poachers, conflict with humans and more.