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• Elephant’s brave fight against tetanus

  31 May 2012, by Gilles Maurer
  An update from the Elephant Conservation Center on the treatment and progress of Phu Thongkoon. Written by Veterinarians Lorna Broughton & William Thomas working at the Elephant (...)

• Laos’ first elephant hospital treats its first patients

  6 March 2012, by Gilles Maurer
  Receiving its first two patients post festival, the ElefantAsia veterinary team based at the Center have diligently started to care for tuskers Phu Thongkhoun and Phu (...)

• Mahout School officially opens at the ECC

  2 March 2012, by Gilles Maurer
  Prior to this year’s Elephant Festival, NGO ElefantAsia celebrates the official opening of their Mahout School established at the Elephant Conservation Center (ECC) in Sayaboury province, northern (...)

• Tusker joins the herd at the Elephant Conservation Center

  2 March 2012, by Gilles Maurer
  ElefantAsia proudly announces the arrival of 29 year old male tusker, Phu Thongkoon at the Elephant Conservation Center in Sayaboury.

• Elephant deaths continue in camps in Luang Prabang

  3 November 2011, by Gilles Maurer
  The month of October brought the death of yet another elephant working in tourist camps within the World Heritage site of Luang Prabang. The death of Mae Nam, a female aged 43 years old, brings (...)

• Announcing arrival of Xang Noy Number Two

  3 November 2011, by Gilles Maurer
  Elephant babies it seems in Laos are like buses, you wait an age for one and two arrive at once! Having reported Laos’ first registered elephant birth of 2011 in Ban Viengkeo, Hongsa late (...)

• Launch of ElefantAsia’s new book ’32 Souls’

  12 October 2011, by Ingrid Suter
  French based NGO ElefantAsia launched their new book ’32 Souls’ on Tuesday 11 October 2011 at Monument Books, Vientiane. Produced and printed entirely in the Lao PDR, ‘32 Souls’ is a truly (...)

• Luxembourg Government assists with Lao elephant reproduction

  4 August 2011, by Ingrid Suter
  The Luxembourg Government has joined ElefantAsia’s Baby Bonus programme by donating agricultural equipment to rural elephant owners. Mechanical rotary hoes known in Laos as tak-taks have been (...)

• The Bamboo Raft

  2 August 2011, by Gilles Maurer
  Mr Bounmy spent months with Lao elephants and the staff from ElefantAsia. From his adventures comes the new novel – The Bamboo Raft. Highly recommended for elephant lovers of all (...)

• Mahout Association in Hongsa gets green light from the French Embassy.

  11 July 2011, by Ingrid Suter
  In conjunction with ElefantAsia, the French Embassy to Laos has entered into an agreement with Lao’s first civil society Mahout Association.

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