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• Tusker Times - ElefantAsia’s Newsletter

  17 June, by Ingrid Suter
  Check out the latest edition of the Tusker Times – the only news bulletin giving you direct news from the field on Asian elephants in Laos. See what the ElefantAsia team have been up to this (...)

• Maternity leave for elephants

  20 February, by Ingrid Suter
  In this case it’s not the elephants with the economic woes, but their owners. With an elephant’s gestation period being a jumbo 22 months, followed by at least another 2 years of lactation, it’s no (...)

• Legal announcement

  3 February, by Gilles Maurer
  On the 14/03/2008, Somneuk, a 3 year old elephant calf died at the Elephant XL Camp, Luang Prabang. Prior to his death Elephant XL Camp and ElefantAsia had observed and treated Somneuk for (...)

• Poachers strike again

  27 October 2009, by Ingrid Suter
  It was here that they discovered three domesticated elephants recently had their tails slashed off by machetes. Fortunately all three elephants were still alive, but were in severe pain and (...)

• Tusker Times - ElefantAsia’s Newsletter

  16 June 2009, by Ingrid Suter
  Check out the latest edition of the Tusker Times – the only news bulletin giving you direct news from the field on Asian elephants in Laos. See what the ElefantAsia team have been up to this (...)

• Elephant deaths spark security boost, Laos

  24 March 2009, by Sébastien Duffillot
  (Vientiane Times, 27 March 2009) - Local authorities will beef up village security forces to protect wild elephants from poaching in Phou Khaokhouay, or ‘ Buffalo Horn Mountain ’, National (...)

• Sayaboury Stomp, Lao Elephant Festival 2009

  20 February 2009, by Gilles Maurer
  It’s on a dusty dirt track in Sayaboury that I first meet Mae Dok. Having just travelled 100km from Hongsa, Mae Dok is understandably weary, and frankly more than just a little smelly. Letting out (...)

• Announcing the 2009 Elephant Festival – 14 & 15th February, Sayaboury, Lao PDR

  9 January 2009, by Ingrid Suter
  Yes, the dates are set; saddle up your elephants for the biggest and best elephant festival yet! Get the latest festival updates at the official 2009 Elephant Festival (...)

• Domesticated elephants poached for ivory, Sayaboury province Lao PDR

  10 September 2008, by Ingrid Suter
  Alarming reports as Laos’ endangered elephants are poached for the illegal ivory trade.