Elephant Healthcare & Welfare
Emergency Lifeline Fund
GOAL: $200,000
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COVID-19 has changed everything – including the lives of an estimated 14,000 captive elephants throughout Asia and the people who ensure their well-being.
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In a perfect world, elephants would not live in captivity and their fate would not depend on tourism – appeals like this would not be needed.
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Emergency Fund Progress Report – October 2020
News from the Field – Please visit our partner (Work for Wildlife International) to read our reports about caring for elephants during the Covid pandemic: https://elesentience.wixsite.com/work4wildlife/news-from-the-field-1
Tourists have vanished along with crucial funds to feed and care for elephants. Sadly, malnutrition (and even starvation) is on the horizon. Release to the wild is not an option (and illegal). A downward spiral toward life-threatening conditions appears inevitable. Now, Asian elephants need good nutrition and care more than ever. Elephant veterinarians, mahouts, and other care providers are being laid off as budgets are whittled down to the bare minimum. Wounds, infections, traumatic injuries, and malnutrition will go untreated…and many elephants will suffer. Some may die.
YOUR DONATION will support the “Elephant Healthcare and Welfare Emergency Lifeline Fund”— providing essential food, medicine, supplies, and hands-on health and welfare care for elephants when and where they need it—until the COVID-19 crisis has passed and the economies have stabilized.
YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE…WHEN IT MATTERS MOST
Please rush your check today to:
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Elephant Care International
166 Limo View Lane
Hohenwald, TN 38462
Or donate online (the “donate” button will open on a secure page)
This fundraising initiative is a joint effort of Elephant Care International (a US-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit) and Work for Wild Life International. Funds will be administered by the Thai registered Golden Triangle Asian Elephant Foundation.