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Elephant Nature Park And The Incredible Woman on a Mission to Save the Asian Elephant
World Elephant Day, which occurred on August 12th, is a global campaign to help raise awareness of the dangers and cruelties elephants worldwide face everyday. In Africa and Asia, these gentle giants are slaughtered for their valuable ivory tusks which are used to make jewelry, statues and a variety of other household art. In Asia, elephants are used extensively in the tourism and logging industry.
Like most people who have visited Asia, I never gave thought to how a mammoth animal can be so well trained to let humans sit on their back for a joy ride. Nor did I ever wonder how an 11, pound body can perform such amazing acrobatic feats in circuses around the world.
I soon found out when I met Lek Chailert at her elephant sanctuary, Elephant Nature Park, outside of Chiang Mai, Thailand. Chailert has devoted her life to recusing elephants and educating the world on the horrors that they face in th
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Editor&#;s Note: Mo Orr is an organizer for Vegans in Toowoomba, in Queensland, Australia, where she lives with her husband George. She is an Elephant Ambassador for Elephant Nature Park and co-moderates several vegan groups online, including Vegans, Vegans in Australia and Vegans in Queensland Australia (QLD). Mo is one of the most passionate vegans we have ever met, always speaking out for the animals and always willing to help people on their own journeys towards veganism.
A fleeting glance at a cattle truck, destination slaughterhouse, and my life changed. I saw the cows inside, looking out. This was the first time I had seen a cattle truck. I had always considered myself an animal lover, a compassionate person, yet I had never questioned food, where, or who, it came from. I had never connected the &#;meat&#; I ate with the animals I professed to love.
Feeding Sod Sai, a rescued pig
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A fiery spirit whose passion rises against all odds, she believes that ingenting is impossible – yet also knows that ingenting comes easily.
The profound impact a career posting with the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs to Phnom Penh in left Geraldine Cox in disbelief. To experience life in a country at war, when the Vietnam War spilled over into Cambodia, was to truly see its devastation and destruction.
Little did she know that a return visit to Cambodia to care for an orphaned child in would steer a compassionate Geraldine on an entirely new path.
Despite leaving Cambodia for a period of time, Geraldine refused to vända a blind eye to the displaced war orphans as a result of the war bloodshed. Resigning from the government in and continuing her career for another 8 years with the Chase Manhattan Bank in Sydney, Geraldine made the decision to move back to Cambodia in
With a determined mind and a nurturing heart, Geraldine co-founded the Sunrise Children’s Villages, giving