by Windy Borman | Mar 30, 2010 | Eyes of Thailand, Notes from the Director
On March 27, 2010, I attended the Performing Animals Welfare Society (PAWS) Summit for Elephants. It was wonderful to be in a room full of elephant advocates and brainstorm about how to protect Asian and African elephants in captivity and the wild. Those in...
by Windy Borman | Mar 25, 2010 | Eyes of Thailand, Notes from the Director
March 25, 2010–Like many of our fellow elephant supporters, we’ve watched and read the updates coming out of the Convention on International Trading in Endangered Species (CITIES) in Doha this month. Today we are happy to report that the requests from...
by Windy Borman | Mar 16, 2010 | Eyes of Thailand, Notes from the Director
March 16, 2010–Last week we reported the Prostheses Foundation built Motala, an elephant landmine survivor at the Friends of the Asian Elephant (FAE) Elephant Hospital, a new prosthetic limb. On March 13, 2010 (Thailand’s National Elephant Day), the...
by Windy Borman | Mar 15, 2010 | Eyes of Thailand, Notes from the Director
For more information about the Ivory Ban, please check out this recent article by Time, which discusses the history of the ivory ban and the consequences that could happen, were it lifted. Below is a copy of an email from Avaaz.org, the online petition site asking...
by Windy Borman | Mar 13, 2010 | Eyes of Thailand, Notes from the Director
March 13, 2010–Today is Thailand’s National Elephant Day. I asked Soraida Salwala, the founder of the Friends of the Asian Elephant (FAE) Elephant Hospital, what the national holiday means to her and the staff and elephants at FAE’s Elephant...
