Flooding in Thailand’s Chiang Mai province has left 20 elephant shelters, home to more than 300 elephants, short of food. The floods destroyed existing food supplies.
The most severely-affected, the Maetaeng Elephant Park and Clinic, says it has enough banana stems for now, but needs slow-ripening crops such as pumpkins, cane, tamarind and corn; it’s asking local donors to bring supplies to the park until roads are re-opened.
Ahead of the floods, volunteers were able to move hundreds of elephants to higher ground, but two elephants were lost to fast-rising waters.
