ELEPHANT FESTIVAL
SAYABOURY 21-28 January 2020 On 23rd February 2020, the ECC and the Sayaboury Province jointly organised 3 educational and sport events the day after the opening…
Newsletter 2019 (version française)
Newsletter 2019 Chère visiteuse, Cher visiteur, Nous tenons tout d’abord à vous souhaiter une très bonne année, pleine de joie et entourée d’éléphants…
Releasing elephants into the wild, a world’s first?
With our soft release project, we are running a final test to see whether captive elephants can be returned to the wild. Our goal is…
First steps in to the wild, a summary of the first month of the soft release
At the start of March 2019, the center brought a group of five elephants, 4 adult females, and one 5-year-old male, to the Nam Pouy…
Bringing elephants back to the wild, a closer look
The Elephant Conservation Center has been taking big steps towards one of our main goals, releasing groups of captive elephants back into the wild. Since…
An intimate night in the Socialization Area
It is important for our release program that we know what our elephant herds are up to during the night. That’s why we organized another…
The Elephant Conservation Center will plant 5,000 trees this year
The volunteers of Volunteer Eco Students Abroad (VESA) have purchased trees and over the next three months, they will plant all of them in Nam…
RUN FOR ELEPHANTS! Congratulations Robert Goupil College in Beaugency, France
Last year we had a visit from a family: Ludovic, Aurélie, Mila, Quentin and Noah who spent a week at the Centre. Upon their return…
ECC & the Smithsonian Institution
ECC is proud to partner with the Smithsonian Institution to monitor elephants’ hormone levels and contribute to a better understanding of their life cycle and…
ECC: Supporting Laos’ elephant camps
Anabel Lopez Perez, ECC’s biologist in charge of our breeding programme and of the management of our male elephants, and Kan Thissamone, vet assistant and…