Elephants in Sumatra and Laos are facing extinction due to massive habitat destruction. As plantations and fields expand into elephant habitat, their food sources and migration routes are compromised, often resulting in human-elephant conflicts. Elephants can be considered agricultural ‘pests’ due to the damage they cause. Sadly, retaliation killings, often in the form of poisoning, have been a huge problem, especially for elephants in Sumatra.
The International Elephant Project runs an elephant adoption program to help fund vital elephant protection projects in Sumatra and Laos. You can help keep these magnificent elephants wild and free by joining our elephant adoption family! Adoption funds go towards the monitoring and protection of elephants in the Bukit Tigapuluh Ecosystem in Sumatra and the Nam Pouy National Protected Area in Laos. You can adopt one of our beautiful matriarchs, Anna, Cinta, Freda and Ginting, or our cheeky young male Dor Khoun Meuang.
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Cinta
Cinta, meaning ‘love’ in Bahasa Indonesia, is a beautiful adult female Sumatran elephant, living in the Bukit Tigapuluh ecosystem. She was first collared in July 2012 and was re-collared in January 2014 in order to replace the already quite battered old collar. This second collar was replaced in August 2015.
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Ginting
Ginting is a beautiful Sumatran elephant living in a herd of over 20 elephants in the Bukit Tigapuluh ecosystem. At over 30 years of age, she had her male calf Chrisna with her when she was first collared in January 2014. Chrisna was only a few weeks old at the time but the baby bull has developed into a buffalo-sized healthy youngster, always up for trouble and play!
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Dor Khoun Meuang
Before his life of freedom at the Elephant Conservation Centre in Laos, Dor Khoun Meuang was one of a group of elephants that were in the process of being illegally sent to a Middle Eastern Zoo from Laos in 2016. With 12 other elephants, he had been loaded into a shipping container, ready for transportation.
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Mae Mah
Mae Mah was forced to work in a logging camp for many years. She was then selected as one of twelve elephants to be illegally sent to a Middle Eastern Zoo from Laos in 2016. Mae Mah and twelve other elephants had been loaded into shipping containers and the plane waiting for them was on the tarmac at Vientiane International Airport in Laos when the Laos Government stepped in. An executive order was received from the Prime Minister’s office, stating that the sale was illegal under Lao law for the first time in history and the elephants were blocked from entering the airport.
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