TERF Project detail
Trees for Elephants
Khao Yai National Park is probably one of the few protected areas left in Thailand; with the potential to sustain a viable elephant population over time.
Together as a joint project; Wild Elephant Research and Conservation Fund (WERF) and the Dutch Bring the Elephant Home (BTEH) are planting 25.000 trees to connect a community forest and the National Park. In hopes to rebuild and conserve the forest, land and providing food and habitat for the elephants and other animals that are in dire need before they face extinction.
Reforestation of Elephants’ Habitat Project
This Projects' mission is to expand through reforestation the wild elephants’ habitat, and build green corridors between isolated populations, coordinating with public and private sector efforts to follow a reforestation plan within and around wild elephants’ habitats throughout Thailand.
Also, it is among this Projects' target accomplishments to identify the main areas within and around Khao Yai National Park demanding reforestation and mobilize resources for these acitivities, aiming at the planting of wildlife corridors between isolated populations and forest area, and to execute reforestation plans in the surroundings Khao Yai National Park and raise awareness towards conservation of wild elephants’ habitats