Elephant Nature Park

We spent 3 days at the Elephant Nature Park
http://www.elephantnaturepark.org/
Lek, the founder works to rescue sick, old, and young elephants from trekking, illegal logging, or street begging jobs around Thailand and brings them to her park north of Chiang Mai. These elephants are often overworked and undernourished. One of the elephants at the park had stepped on a landmine at a logging operation on the Burma boarder, another was given speed in order to work both tourist trekking and a logging jobs concurrently, and some were just abused for years. By tying blessed monks robes around trees in the local area around the park Lek helps to preserve natural forest area for the elephants and other wildlife.