Mekong Elephant Park

The Elephant Conservation Center partners with Mekong Elephant Park for conservation purposes

One of the missions of the Elephant Conservation Center is to breed elephants for conservation purposes. If an other place wants to breed to protect the species, we share our experience and our knowledge. In this context, the ECC started to monitor 2 females from Mekong Elephant Park 9 months ago. After receiving all the blood samples, our biologist has been able to know their cycle. These two females are…

Back to the wild

Back to the wild, an update of our released elephants

This week, we will show what is happening in the protected area of Nam Pouy. As a reminder, we have started to release elephants into the wild in March 2019 in collaboration with the Lao Government and with the support of IEP (International Elephant Project), Fondation Ensemble, and Senspa. Our team goes to check on them regularly, and we are happy to say everything is going great! You can have…

Socialization of male elephants

Not much is known about the social life of male elephants. Before, people always thought they were mostly solitary. This week, we will show you a unique project that has started at the ECC during the COVID19 crisis: the socialization of our male elephants. There are around 800 elephants left in Laos: 400 in the wild and 400 in captivity. On top of that, the captive male elephant population is…