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Maetang Elephant Park is building an elephant clinic that will cater for all sick or injured elephants in the Maetaman valley, The elephant Clinic has been paid for by selling t shirts, silk wine bags, elephant paintings and elephant dung paper products as as well as from our elephant riding and bamboo rafting activities. The upkeep and running costs of the elephant clinic are being paid for by selling the work of our most talented elephants and these novelty gifts, are available in our on line shop. This is all part of our policy of protecting asian elephants and taking care of our Mahouts

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 Maetang Elephant Park is pleased to announce that our new elephant hospital is now open, providing maternity care for baby elephants and treating injured elephants. Most of the money for the elephant clinic has been raised selling silk wine bags, elephant paintings and t shirts that have been painted by our most talented elephants on elephant dung paper, canvas or silk.

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HELPING ELEPHANTS HELP THEMSELVES

The Elephants themselves have raised the money for their own clinic. Some of our most talented elephants are painting “T” shirts and our elephant paintings are either in oils on canvas or watercolors on environmentally friendly ELEPHANT DUNG PAPER made at our camp. We are then selling them to raise the funds required for the construction and setting up of the elephant clinic.

Profits from the sale of t shirts, elephant paintings and silk wine bags will be used to help pay the running costs of the clinic once construction has finished and we are fully operational.

Once completed, the elephant clinic will be able to treat:

Impaction: A common complaint suffered by elephants due to their diet which causes constipation.

Bot Fly bites: These insects lay eggs under the skin and, left untreated, can cause massive infections.
 

Cracked Toe nails: Split or cracked toe nails are very painful for the elephant and need treatment.

 
Snake bites: The jungles around the Maetaman valley are home to dozens of different species of snakes many of them extremely dangerous and so snakes bites are a constant threat.

Maternity facilities: At Maetaman Elephant Park we have a great success rate in the birth of baby elephants but like all births, there can be complications, the most common being Breached Births where the calf has turned sideways in the womb. Without specialist assistance, these babies will end up still born and the mother could suffer permanent damage.

 
Tusk canal infections: A very painful condition that can lead to the removal of the tusk.

 
At the moment, we, like all the other camps in the valley, have to transport our elephants by truck to the Elephant Hospital in Lampang, a journey of 150 kilometers that takes over 2 hours. This is a traumatic journey for any elephant but when the animal is sick and in pain it adds extra stress and anxiety which often leads to further injury. Once our elephant clinic is finished, all these conditions will be treated at our camp and the facility will be open to some 300 elephants in our valley and the surrounding villages. It goes without saying that hundreds of injured elephants will be relieved of suffering quickly and efficiently every year as well as the lives of some dozen or so calves’ throughout the region, that die annually in child birth or very soon afterwards because of inadequate care.

Thanks to the wonderful efforts of a number of fundraising events organized by the local expatriate community in Chiangmai, we have already raised enough money (selling bricks, painted “T” shirts, and elephant paintings) to start construction and we have now completed the main building.

The Expat community continues to overwhelm us with support but we need YOUR HELP as well. If you would like to help with the construction of the Maetang Elephant Clinic, you can purchase painted “T” shirts, as well as elephant paintings on Elephant Dung Paper or Oil Paintings on Canvas, all painted by our own talented elephants. All you have to do is go to our catalogue page, choose the item(s) you want to buy and add them to your shopping cart.

For more details and information on this new elephant clinic near Chiangmai in Thailand please contact Maetang Elephant Park at elephanteco@csloxinfo.com 

Thank you most sincerely for your contribution.

                                Nee and Ken ,

                      (Owners of Maetang Elephant Park and Clinic)

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