NEW: Elephant Refuge and Education program in Thailand!

GVN is now offering volunteers the opportunity to work with one of the most magnificent animals in the world! We have opened up a program in Thailand where volunteers have the chance to work hands on with domesticated elephants who have spent their lives working in the tourism industry. The city is a harsh environment for such a large forest animal, they are under constant threat of road accidents, pollution and a scorching heat that can be fatal to a large mammal such as the elephant.

Volunteers are needed to assist the local staff at the Refuge Centre to ensure that from now onwards the elephants have a better quality of life in their natural environment.

The main duties at the centre include:

• cleaning the elephant enclosures
• feeding and watering the elephants
• harvesting food for the elephants
• walking some of the elephants in to the forest at night and
collecting them in the morning
• bathing the elephants in a lake
• maintaining the elephant refuge

To find out more please visit:
http://www.globalvolunteernetwork.org/thailand