WERF Project detail
Education Nature Interpretation
Elephant Education
- The future of elephants is in the hands of children! Through sharing what we learn about elephants with children from around Khao Yai and elsewhere in Thailand, we hope that they too will love these animals and take an active part in their conservation.
- Over the past years we have run many educational activities for students from around Thailand and even overseas.
Over the last 30 years, elephant habitat has been dramatically reduced throughout Asia due to destruction of forest for farms, settlements, roads, recreational facilities, dams and other human needs (see Asia Map). However, no-one has told the elephants that they can no longer use these areas and now have to remain in the patches of forest and wilderness that are left.
Throughout Asia, there are cases of elephants, usually the bulls, leaving the protected areas and forest and entering agricultural areas to feast on the crops growing there. Some enter villages causing damage to property and in some cases taking human lives. The people living in close proximity to elephant habitats are, needless to say, less than happy with these large marauders and often take action to try and prevent the elephants from entering farmlands and villages with mixed success.