Save Elephants from Starvation

URGENT: Elephants near total starvation in Thailand need your help.

Nearly 250 tourist elephant “camps” existed in Thailand in 2020, providing rides and circus-style demeaning performances with captive elephants. While there is a massive ongoing campaign by animal welfare groups to phase out these exploitative activities, the abrupt, long-term loss of tourist revenue due to the pandemic has left camp operators and elephant owners as abandoned as the animals themselves.

With the loss of tourism, over 3,500 elephants in the industry were forced into 24-hour leg and neck chains. Every day elephants eat on average 10% of the their bodyweight, which means keeping them fed and healthy is a mammoth task. Now, almost 15 months later, the surviving elephants are near total starvation, still in leg chains and another day closer to death. Thailand is experiencing the third wave of the pandemic, and with no end in sight, urgent intervention is required.

That's why Project Peril, a program of Greater Good Charities, is working with our partners at Save Elephant Foundation (SEF) to support an elephant food bank to meet this desperate need across Thailand. So far, this food bank has reached 1,059 elephants in need, but urgent funding is critical to allow SEF to continue to reach more elephants and maintain food deliveries long-term.

You can help. Your gifts will provide the food these elephants so desperately need, just to stay alive. Just $50 covers a day's food and care for one elephant. Donate now to save these majestic beasts from going hungry.

Project Peril, a program of Greater Good Charities, is dedicated to the conservation of species identified as in peril, threatened, endangered or close to extinction throughout the world.