An overview of our Rescues and other Projects
All the rescues and projects below are set out in chronological order and the reports were written at the time of the rescue - times change, babies grow up so for day to day stories of the adventures of our babies please check John's Rambling Elephant Blog.
Nong Pleum : Plai Tawan : Outreach Programmes : Nong Dah : Poon Larb and Lynchee : Nam Chok & Pumpui : Adopt a Vet : Lamyai & Meena : Makam & Nam Khong : Pepsi : Linda & Deang Moo : Manau: Sakura
Linda and Deang Moo
Deang Moo
Even Poj, her mahout, doesn't know too much about Musa, he bought her very young from Trat province, back when it seemed like a good idea to buy babies and go to the streets.
In January 2007 we met Musa in the Khao Kiew detention centre, they'd just been arrested and were having to prove the provenence of their elephants, the Government were performing DNA tests to ensure they were truly Thai.
After their Bangkok arrest Poj decided not to go back but instead made a small living moving from town to town in the North of the Isaan region where the Mekong river comes out of Laos again.
He had, however, taken our card when we met him at Khao Kiew and recognised our name.
Musa is another of our elephants to display stereotypic behaviour, when she first arrived, even unchained, she'd stand still where she was left and sway side to side, afraid to interact with the other babies - nowadays she's far more outgoing during her daytime freedom though she still sleeps in camp at night, afraid of the jungle night-time.
Linda
Another of the elephants we met in Khao Kiew Linda was, until the age of two, a show elephant for one of the commercial cultural stage shows in the South of Thailand.
She was sold as a very skinny two year old as it had been decided she was too big for her role and they already had enough large performing elephants - her time with the show taught her lots of tricks (which she doesn't have to show for us) but her mahout, Nui, is quick to point out her intelligence and ability to learn quickly.
Her time between the show and here was spent in Bangkok selling bananas and performing tricks for tourists and other streetlife, following their detention in Khao Kiew they did go back into Bangkok but were very keen to come back to civilisation.
Deang Moo and Linda have had their future guaranteed for the next four years by Mrs. Ansje Grietje Toering Erwich.
Deang Moo and Linda Links
