AES is assisting the Center of Elephant and Wildlife Research and the Thailand Elephant Alliance Association in helping elephant owners and camps to provide medical care to their elephants during their loss of revenue due to covid shutdown of tourism. The recent funds that AES has provided were used to provide free of charge medicine for the CMU mobile elephant clinic (that AES provided last year). The funds were also used to provide 30 First aid med-boxes for elephant and camp owners to treat elephants.
Shown below are some of the blue First aid med-boxes for the owners to treat their elephants. These photos were taken on a recent trip by the CMU mobile vet van to villages in Mae Jam district to help 100 camp elephants.
CMU Van Working During Covid-19
Dr. Yeaw of the Center of Elephant and Wildlife Research has reported that during the covid-19 outbreak, they have also corroborated with the Thai Elephant Alliance Association for helping elephants that need urgent veterinary services using the CMU Mobile Vet van that AES donated in 2019.
They recently treated an elephant that had been lame and non-weight bearing for many days. During the exam they found a chronic abscess and inflammation. They then opened the abcess, dressed the wound and applied anitibiotic.
Myanmar Vets' to Thailand
Asian Elephant Health and Breeding Management Course in Thailand: Report for Asian Elephant Support
In the online part of the course (22 April to 24 May 2019), we learned about anatomy, physiology, nutrition, endocrinology, ultrasonography, anesthesia, restraint, and breeding and parturition management of Asian elephants.
In June we participated in a 5-day practical course in northern Thailand. The first day (10 June) we had lectures on health care management, endotheliotropic herpes virus, nutrition, plasma transfusion and blood cross match at Chiang Mai University in the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine.
The next days were practical training and demonstrations at the National Elephant Institute in Lampang, and Elephant Rehabilitation center, Pang Lah. On 11 June we had presentations on common health problems, tuberculosis, nutrition, and case studies in Sri Lanka and Thailand. From 12 to 14 June we studied rehabilitation, obesity, welfare, anesthesia, practiced using an elephant-like ultrasonography, semen collection, semen evaluation, estrus detection, reproductive hormone monitoring and calf management after parturition etc.
From this trip, we got the opportunity to hear a lot of elephant information and we got to share knowledge regarding elephant health care management from different regions. Therefore, your support is absolutely effective for us and for taking care of our elephants.
Finally, we would like to express our sincere thanks to Asian Elephant Support for your kind support for our trip. Without your support we could not benefit from this training.
Best regards,
Dr. Moe Win Tun
Dr. Zaw Min Htun
CMU Mobile Veterinary Van
The CMU Mobile Veterinary Van purchased with AES funds has been quite busy since its official inauguration this past March. Here are a few pictures of its progress in helping Asian elephants in Thailand (which, in turn, will extend to solving medical issues for elephants worldwide). Thanks to Dr. Yeaw for providing most of these photos.
You, our supporters, have made this all possible. Many thanks!
The van’s official inauguration at CMU on Thai Elephant Day
Van being blessed by a Buddhist monk
Examining and prescribing treatment at a remote camp
Collecting research data
EREC Bonfire T-shirt Campaign
Benefitting the EREC New Mobile Vet Unit
We are excited to announce a new way to help us purchase a mobile vet truck for Chiang Mai University Vet Department to provide care for the surrounding area's elephants.
Dr. Yeaw performing a blood draw from the ear. Typically blood draws are performed from the ear, but they can also be done on the rear leg while the elephant is standing
Currently they are using one vehicle for 4 veterinarians to make house calls to local elephant camps. AES would like to provide them with a second vehicle to be shared among the vets and to make sure they have a backup in case one breaks down. The campaign is set to run for 10 days, from July 15th - July 25th.
We'd like to sell as many t-shirts as we can so please share this campaign with everyone you know and buy a couple shirts for yourself! This is a special, one-of-a-kind shirt only available for this fundraiser. It features our logo and the EREC logo in white on a charcoal grey shirt.
Thank you and we will keep everyone posted on the progress via our Facebook page!
(Left) Dr. Yeaw performing an eye exam
(Right) Dr. Yeaw with a newly collected blood sample