We’ve realised that happy mahouts lead to happy elephants, and we’ve improved our elephant camp conditions to improve their living starts. We aim to set an example for other facilities and encourage them to do the same. Additionally, we’ve supported cultural preservation and elephant-friendly care in Surin village camps.
Recognising that happy mahouts are key to providing good care for elephants we were among the first to pay and to fight for equitable pay, rent and legal, contractual employment rights our mahouts. We spread this policy through our work advising on written guidelines and standards for elephant camp management and elephant welfare. For many years we supported the mahouts’ wives silk weaving business until they chose not to continue.
We also contribute to both elephant welfare and mahout capacity building by hosting Human Elephant Learning Project and Environmental Enrichment Workshops while helping sponsor Government run Mahout as Vet Nurse training courses for both our own mahouts and for those from around South East Asia.
We support ancient mahout culture by encouraging and facilitating all annual ceremonies and have also:
If you would like to meet our elephants and see more of our work, book a stay at the Anantara Golden Triangle Elephant Camp & Resort or Four Seasons Tented Camp Golden Triangle and take part in one of our educational activities.
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