TERF Project detail
Animalcare
It is an unfortunate fact that currently most of willd and domestic elephants throughout Thailand are not granted with adequate animal care infrastructure, food security plans and sustainable captive breeding plan. Understanding this, TERF has conceived three projects that aim at offering some change to this scenario.
Elephant Care Mobile Unit
TERF's Elephant Care Mobile Unit's mission is to offer a well equipped mobile Animal Care unit to specialized veterinarians all over Thailand in their animal care activities with domestic or wild elephants injured or whose life is under threat.
More specifically, it is among the objectives and target accomplishments of this project:
- To equip off-road vehicles with all tools, medicines and apparatus with the function of assisting veterinarians in the medical care of injured, sick or debilitated elephants throughout Thailand.
- To provide a 24 hour emergency veterinary equipment for veterinary treating sick or injured elephants throughout Thailand.
Elephant Food Development
TERF's Elephant Food Development Project aims at secure continued research and development of alternative sources and production processes for food and dietary complements for elephants.
More specifically, it is among the objectives and target accomplishments of this project:
- To conduct Research & Development Projects into elephants’ diet complements and alternative food sources and production process.
- To secure present and future elephants food supply, in terms of quality, diversity and quantity.
- To arrange and coordinate Seminars on Elephant Nutrition aimed at the development of alternative modes of production of food and nutritional suplements for elephants
- To develop sucessful Elephant Food Security procedure guidelines that could be easily replicated in other Asian Elephants conservation centers.
- To set and execute an Elephant Food Production Plan, aimed at providing resident elephants constant, diversified and quality diet.
Elephant Breeding
TERF's Elephant Breeding Project has as mission to successfully manage and breed elephants in captivity aiming at conservation and gathering of knowledge on elephant’s reproduction and biology.
Among this project's objectives and target accomplishments we highlight:
- To manage an initial resident population of 6 elephants owned by TERF, consisting of 4 females and 2 males (one young and one adult).
- To develop and implement a Breeding Procedure Plan, with appropriate data gathering and professional assistance
- To successfully breed and expand captive elephants’ population under TERF’s ownership and management, and develop a breeding procedure model that can be replicated in other centers and/or in partnership with other Elephant Centers.
- To invite, support and assist researchers interested in the captive breeding of elephants.