by Windy Borman | Oct 8, 2010 | Eyes of Thailand, Notes from the Director, Press Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Contact Name: Windy Borman Email: windy@dvaproductions.com ELEPHANTS LOSE LIMBS AND LIVES IN THAILAND Award-winning Filmmakers’ fight for Elephant Landmine Survivors in new shocking documentary, “The Eyes of Thailand”, takes them to the...
by Windy Borman | Oct 4, 2010 | Action Alert, Eyes of Thailand, Notes from the Director
Dear Friends, Family and Elephant Supporters, I’m going back to Thailand. On September 11, 2010, another elephant stepped on a landmine along the Thai-Burma (Myanmar) border, thus becoming the fourth elephant landmine survivor to be treated at FAE’s Elephant Hospital...
by Windy Borman | Sep 13, 2010 | Eyes of Thailand, Notes from Soraida and FAE, Notes from the Director
I am writing with an update on Boonmee, the 10-year elephant landmine victim that arrived at FAE’s Elephant Hospital today. Soraida Salwala, FAE’s founder, sent me the following email: Boonmee is a 10-year old Thai elephant. She was taken across the border...
by Windy Borman | Sep 13, 2010 | Eyes of Thailand, Notes from the Director
On August 5, 2010, I wrote that Mae ka pae, a 22-year old elephant that stepped on a landmine along the Thia-Myanmar border, had arrived at FAE’s Elephant Hospital. Sadly, I have to report that a fourth elephant, Boonmee, a 10-year old Thai elephant who was...
by Windy Borman | Sep 13, 2010 | DVA Productions Blog, Media Productions Blog, Notes from the Director
When the Mine Ban Treaty parties adopted the Cartagena Action Plan at the Cartagena Summit on a Mine-Free World in December 2009, they committed to “make use of synergies with other relevant instruments of international humanitarian and human rights law.”...
