Saturday, June 03, 2006

Elephant Sanctuary #1


I had forgotten all about these pictures I received from a friend some time ago and neglected to make notes on the back, he had been on a tour and I think he said this was an Elephant Orphanage in Sri Lanka.
Appearantly many calves are simply abandoned by the herds.

Posted by Buckles at 6/03/2006 06:26:00 AM

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Do you think this barn cost three million dollars? Notice the stake line! These people have lived with elephants for hundreds of years guess they don't know what they are doing. Send buckley over there to straighten them out.

03 June, 2006 08:32
Anonymous said...

Looks like the Pinnawela orphange. They have lots of problems there. It's a huge tourist attraction. They handle all elephants in free contact including the big bulls and they had a number of accidents there in the last years. Seems no deaths so far but with thousands of tourists running around quite dangerous.

There are approx. 70 elephants and they have huge problems with parasites and malnutrition. Many females in breeding age are in such bad health that they don't cycle.

During the day when the tourists are prsent the elephants are led to the river for a bath 2 a day, after the tourists leave all elephants exept the small babys are chained in that shelter.

These informations are from Prof. Fred Kurt, a swiss elephant scientists who did more then 40 years of research on asian elephants in Asia, both wild and captive.

03 June, 2006 17:45
Anonymous said...

Elephants need a lot of help over there. Sending money isn't the answer. People who can treat the bugs and teach a proper diet would help. The main problem is making sure the elephants get what they need. Hungrey people will be driven to keep for themselves. On one hand they are trying to save the elephants and in other parts they are killing them for distroying the crops. There are dozens of web sites telling the troubles of these elephants. Give some elephants to able trainers here in america to perform in the circus to generate money and awareness of problems. Every circus should have at least five elephants. Baby elephants would be a real crowd pleaser for sure. It would help a little instead of just talking of the problems. The talk has gone on for twenty years. Its time to do something instead of talk and collect money.

03 June, 2006 20:22
Anonymous said...

Check out this web site and click on the picture labeled 'Grand Old Man' Now that's a big bull

http://www.tovey.org/srilanka.html

03 June, 2006 21:15
DanKoehl said...

Correcting myself; for sure this is Pinnawala orphanage.

30 January, 2012 13:37

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