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Come and be a part of keeping these elephants in retirement.

Visitors help us keep these elephants happy in retirement.

Join us for the experience of a lifetime. Your support is a key piece of our ability to keep elephants living as they deserve. We have a number of ways that visitors can help the elephants, and the community.

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Our Volunteer Process

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Observe Elephant Behavior

Visitors hike into the forest each day to where our elephants are roaming the forest as nature intended. Learn how to recognize behaviors, record elephant interactions and foraging preferences that contribute to our elephant care, and observe the natural behaviors of elephants.

Contribute to Forest Conservation

Elephants are excellent gardeners, roaming throughout the forest, opening up areas allowing light to enter and creating new growth. Foraging and leaving their nutrient rich dung full of seeds behind. This seed dispersal creates new plant growth for other species. Experiment with our germination project and see what seedlings we can grow. Help with our tree planting projects in the forest that these elephants, and many other species, need to survive.

Work on Building Projects

Construction for projects both large and small is an ongoing endeavor. Some smaller tasks arise that need your help, and we have plans for an elephant clinic on site for when our resident elephants need veterinary attention.

Support The Village

Help the locals with farming projects and teach English to the wonderful kids at the school. Learn to weave the traditional karen cloth weaving or make baskets from bamboo and learn the language only the Karen people speak.

Village Life
Visitors are allocated a homestay in the village with a friendly host family. Karen people live in wooden/bamboo houses in the mountains. Accommodations are basic, but you will have a private room with a thin mattress on the floor with a mosquito net.
Village Life
The bathroom is a separate room outside usually with a squat toilet and cold bucket shower. However, some families will have a western toilet with a shower head. (You will be surprised how quickly even the fussiest of westerners can adapt.) The village has fairly reliable power and water, but we will occasionally lose access temporarily.
Village Life
Your host family will provide lunch and dinner, and you’ll eat breakfast with your fellow volunteers at the voli-house. Karen food is generally vegetable, rice, noodles, egg, occasional pork, chicken or fish. Vegetarians/vegan can be catered for. There are a couple of little shops in the village that sell drinks, snacks, and beer for purchase.
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This is really an incredible, life changing experience for everyone who comes to share in our passion for elephants.

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