Category — Thailand

A baby elephant, who lost her leg in a landmine accident, has been fitted with an artificial leg.

ABC News

Mahouts in Thailand are using cute baby elephants to earn money from tourists.

The Vancouver Sun

All elephant lovers know that one of the amazing things about elephants is that they can paint and that they enjoy it. Here is the list of all the articles about elephants and painting indexed on this site.

Here is a video of an elephant painting. I am truly amazed at what the elephant creates.

A great book about elephant painting is When Elephants Paint : The Quest of Two Russian Artists to Save the Elephants of Thailand. The authors set up the Thai Elephant Art School and taught the elephants how to paint, which the elephants enjoy, auction the painting and use the proceeds for elephant conservations efforts. How cool is that?

If you are interested in purchasing this book, clicking on the link below will help support this site.

When Elephants Paint: The Quest of Two Russian Artists to Save the Elephants of Thailand
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If you are interested in purchasing a painting created by an elephant the Elephant Art Gallery sells abstract paintings created by elephants. The Elephant Art Gallery is affiliated with the National Elephant Institute in Thailand.

photo credit: Cybjorg

“Gorkha Janamukti Morcha (GJM) supporters burnt down a portion of the forest beat office at Kalabari in West Bengal’s Darjeeling district after one of their leaders was attacked and injured by a wild elephant here Monday night, the police said Tuesday. Three rooms of the beat office were gutted while the mob also beat up a forest guard, said district forest officer Kurseong Y.T. Aden.” – Thaindian News

“Researchers from Chiang Mai University (CMU) have a new means of fighting phobias and depression _ elephants. CMU had previously studied the effects of ”elephant therapy” on autistic children and, having noted promising results, are now proposing a similar programme for people suffering from depression or phobias. ” – Bangkok Post

“But add a cute baby, and tourists flock to pet and feed the grey-brown giants, making the plodding pachyderms more of an investment than a curse for modern mahouts working in Thailand, one of Asia’s top holiday destinations.” –

“Anantara Golden Triangle welcomed the youngest member to its ever expanding pachyderm family! The 90 kilo bundle of joy, little �Raimon�, was born in the early hours of July 16 at the Anantara Elephant Camp.” – e-Travel Blackboard

“Professor Rosaleen Duffy and Dr Lorraine Moore from the University’ s School of Social Sciences say many problems have endured since the ending of the logging trade which employed virtually all Thai elephants in 1989.” –

“Authorities in Keralas Kottayam District today captured the rogue elephant, Bholu Nath, near a forest area..” – Thaindian News

“Noppakhao paints to earn an income for him and his owner.” – Yahoo! News Photos

“When a concise history of the achievements and failures of the present government comes to be written, an accusing finger will point to the neglect of certain national assets. Wildlife conservation is likely to be one such casualty; the environment another. But the government still has time to redeem itself and its scorecard could be worse. ” – Bangkok Post

“Flailing two-metre-long bamboo mallets, piles of steaming dung and crazed colonials are all part of this young Englishman’s job, not to mention wrinkled three-tonne arses swinging arbitrarily or the indiscriminate stomping of dinner plate-sized feet.” – The Daily Telegraph

“Elephant-dung pages dispose of a massive waste problem profitably” – csmonitor.com

“More than 100 elephants hauling logs on the Thai-Burmese border are in constant danger, as one step in the wrong direction could injure or even kill them.” – Bangkok Post

“Thai doctors fit plastic prosthesis to elephant’s foot, after she lost it in landmine blast, in medical advance which holds out hope for other pachyderms _ including Motala the elephant, injured in Karen state blast nine years ago, writes Somsak Suksai” – Bangkok Post

“Mosha was only seven months old when she trod on a landmine in Thailand in 2006.” – Telegraph

“The reason, during the coming December, they will spend three weeks in Thailand. Two of those three weeks will be as simple unpaid workers clear away the elephant dung, and maybe more important, nurse mishandled and wounded elephants.” – ScandAsia.Com

“Thom’s Pai elephant camp, the first of its kind in Thailand is an adventure packed oasis which offers tourists the chance to ride, play and bathe with the elephants. ” – e-Travel Blackboard