PARTNERS

We are proud to be part of the Asian Captive Elephant Working Group and contribute our experience to creating more awareness about both the problems and the possible solutions on how to improve health care and management practices for captive elephants in South East Asia.

Our Advisors:

Christopher Stremme, DVM is a veterinarian and a former elephant handler and trainer with more than 25 years of experiences in elephant health care and management. Since the last 18 years he has been involved in various captive and wild elephant welfare and conservation projects in several Asian elephant range countries. Since 2004 he is living in Sumatra in Indonesia where he has developed and managed an elephant health care program with a local NGO. Since 2015 he has joined the Veterinary Faculty at the Syiah Kuala University Banda Aceh as associate lecturer to head the development of Elephant and other wildlife veterinary training and teaching programs as well as the development of a wildlife ambulance. Christopher visits the ECC several times a year to provide our elephants routine checks and perform treatment when needed. He also checks our cows for pregnancies.

Janine L. Brown, Ph.D. is a Reproductive Physiologist at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute’s Center for Species Survival. Janine has helped establish ECC’s endocrinology lab and works with ECC to analyse hormones and DNA of the Center’s elephants and wild elephant populations.