However, when the opportunity arose and an old friend, Khun Prasop Tipprasert, took early retirement from his Government job with the Forest Industries Organisation and the Thai Elephant Conservation Centre, I went to the bosses, scraped some satang together and did the next best thing, I hired a consultant for the Golden Triangle Asian Elephant Foundation.<< MORE >>

Thailand needs a new law to govern the use and define the misuse of elephants on this we all agree. Over the past few days, it seems, some new laws have been passed, some have been mooted and others have been ignored. The way we govern our elephants seems to be a hot topic at this moment, lawmakers seem to be looking our way, but why, after all this time talking about it & trying to light the oven, do we suddenly find ourselves holding a hot potato (& how long can we keep it hot)?<< MORE >>

On the 7th of the 7th 2010 renowned healer and lifestyle guru Deepak Chopra began what he describes as his monkhood journey at Wat Sri Rom Yen in Northern Thailand, he was joined by K. Joy's brother K. Jate, both were carried to the temple by Makam and Bo, a sacred duty under any circumstances, one that we are proud and honoured to have undertaken.<< MORE >>

It is well known in the elephant world that though we look after your elephant well, pay more than most, look after the family & have a genuine and obvious love for all the hangers on in an elephant camp we have certain crazy foreign ideas that must be adhered to in order to gain access to our long, straight sugar cane, our nice housing and our life insurance plans.<< MORE >>

After the short respite Joseph Rosendo heads north to the border of Thailand, Myanmar and Laos to continue his Thailand adventure in the infamous Golden Triangle. From a coffee, tea and macadamia nut plantation to a thriving elephant camp, he uncovers what Thais are doing to transform the Triangle’s ancient opium production to pursuits that will improve the lives of the area’s many Hill Tribe people.<< MORE >>

So it was that we accepted an invitation to travel down to the beautiful, big city of Chiang Mai to attend the E.U. Asia-Link Project Symposium on the Health & Reproduction of Asian Elephants. << MORE >>

Through Anantara Hotels Resorts & Spas we are participating in Elephant Family's Elephant Parade (we have an elephant called Little Bird in a not-too-secret location somewhere in London...<< MORE >>

So it is, that when Scientists and Students offer to swing by camp they are seldom turned away, at the very least they'll keep the mahouts on their toes with their bizarre requests or amused, as in my first case, with their unwavering ability to stare at elephants for hours on end and, who knows, as in a couple of recent cases maybe they'll change the way we look after our elephants and provide ammunition to our mahouts to try & change things further.<< MORE >>

On the 23rd of May at ten past four in the morning Boun Na gave birth to a healthy baby boy, like any sensible elephant she had waited until the proper onset of the wet season and, unlike Bua Tong almost two years ago, politely chose a time when we'd got most of our nights' sleep out of the way and when I was on site. << MORE >>

Under cover of the monsoon invaders are sneaking down the rivers, making landfall at the edge of the floods, in broad daylight foreigners are spreading across the land strangling the very things we rely on to live - and before you write me off as an election campaigner with an axe to grind I should point out that the invaders to which I refer are plants. << MORE >>