TERF Thai Elephant Research and Conservation Fund

Human Elephant Conflict (HEC)

In Thailand, Human Elephant Conflict (HEC) has been recorded as an issue in communities around 14 protected areas. There is no national overview of the problem and nor is there a national database to record and monitor whether the instances of HEC are increasing, decreasing or staying the same at either the local or national level.

Education

Educational activities for students from around Thailand and even overseas, bringing our awareness raising and conservation call to students and people. Environmental Education camps for school students, teacher, and interested people, aiming at educating people on Elephants' ecology.

Thai Elephants Centre for Conservation (TECC)

A small attempt to help the ‘streets elephants’ and their mahouts to have better life conditions here and now, at the same time bringing them to work together towards elephant conservation and awareness raising among stakeholders.

Trees for Elephants

Reforestation of the wild elephants’ habitat, and creation of green corridors between isolated populations, with coordination with public and private sector efforts to follow a reforestation plan within and around wild elephants’ habitats throughout Thailand.

Research

The gathering of conducted surveys, studies, researches and other relative documents on elephants. It is only through constant gathering and sharing of knowledge on elephants that awareness raising efforts can assure long term results among all individuals of society.

Offering Thai Elephants access to emergency healthcare, researching into alternative nutrition sources for captive elephants and assuring well guided elephant breeding and captive treatment as one of the fronts to assure elephants conservation in Thailand.

Promotion through multimedia channels of the importance of Elephants to Society and Environment of Thailand, through a full approach of both wild and domestic elephants’ conservation particularities.

Promotion through awareness-raising joint ventures and events of the importance of Elephants to Society and Environment of Thailand, through a full approach of both wild and domestic elephants’ conservation particularities