by Windy Borman | Apr 5, 2010 | Eyes of Thailand, Notes from the Director
Baby Mosha, an elephant landmine survivor at the Friends of the Asian Elephant (FAE) Elephant Hospital and featured in the documentary The Eyes of Thailand, is growing so fast, the Prostheses Foundation had to return to FAE and adjust her prosthesis again. On March...
by Windy Borman | Apr 2, 2010 | Action Alert, Eyes of Thailand, Notes from the Director
On March 18, 2010, Baby Nampet arrived at the Friends of the Asian Elephant (FAE) Elephant Hospital from Chiang Mai. He was walking on the road when a vehicle hit him. This is a daily threat and a sad reality for many street elephants in Thailand. Luckily for...
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...
