“Richard Lair, from San Francisco, California, has intensively studied the Asian elephant for 27 years and is presently Advisor and International Relations Officer at the National Elephant Institute of Thailand, based at the Forest Industry Organization’s Thai Elephant Conservation Center, in Lampang province. Initially he was interested only in wild elephants and thus began his work in Thailand with Dr. Bonsoong Lekagul at the Association for the Conservation of Wildlife, the Kingdom’s first conservation NGO.
“He is a member of the IUCN/SSC Asian Elephant Specialist Group (AESG) and wrote Gone Astray: The Care and Management of the Asian Elephant in Domesticity for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). His latest publication is The Elephant In Thai Life , published by Asia Books. He is co-founder of the Thai Elephant Orchestra.”
In 2004 he wrote the following article about the the challenging future Thai Asian Elephants face:
http://www.tatnews.org/emagazine/2116.asp
I find it interesting to note what has changed–and what hasn’t changed–in the last 5 years. All the more reason to finish and distribute “The Eyes of Thailand” as soon as possible. If you are interested in making a tax-deudctible donation to the film through the film’s fiscal sponsor (The San Francisco Film Society), you can at: http://www.sffs.org/donate/donate-now.aspx?pid=47
Thank you for your continued support!
-Windy Borman
Producer, Writer and Director, “The Eyes of Thailand”
