Nam Chok – นำโชค
Arrival date: September 2023
Arrival age: 50+
Rescue location: Pattaya
History: Nam Chok is suspected to have been caught from the wild, and has been in captivity for decades ever since. She worked at a trekking camp in Pattaya for 6 years before her rescue. She spent her days chained to a concrete platform waiting to give rides to tourists. Her owner contacted us because she became very slow and could no longer keep up with the other elephants. Her front legs are very stiff from years of carrying people and a heavy chair on her back.
Characteristics: Nam Chok is a small, slim elephant with an easygoing nature. She is partially blind is one eye and is easy to recognise by her left eye, which bulges out due to an old bull hook injury. She has also lost almost all the teeth.
Nam Chok enjoys spending time in the water and stripping trees of their leaves, even if she doesn’t intend to eat them.
Nam Chok’s Rescue
Nam Chok
May 2018
‘Don’t Stop me now’
Khan Kluey is definitely having such a good time... He is having a tyre! In the air, on the water, on his face, on his trunk, under and on the top of him,... He is [...]
Professional Splasher!
Scratching Skills: 6.0 Performance/Execution: 6.0 Choreography: 6.0 Interpretation:6.0 A perfect score for Thong Phoon who got the gold medal for her mud splashing performance! So elegant and perfectly covered. She ruled the competition!! Have a [...]
Trunk Re-fill for La Ong Dao
La Ong Dao loves to drink cool fresh water from the hosepipe on a very hot day.
Pin and her Family…
Baby Pin is growing up very fast, although she will always be under the watchful eyes of her mother 'Pun' and doting aunties 'Kaew Petch' and 'La Ong Dao'. 3-year-old Pin rules the herd, her [...]
A big happy Mothers Day
A big happy Mothers Day to all you lovely mothers out there. Here is Pai Lin enjoying a mothers day treat at the WFFT.
Hello from Somboon!!
Somboon is one of the herd of 23 elephants that call the WFFT Elephant Refuge home. She is around 48 years old and has been with us for just over 11 years. She spent many [...]
Glorious Grass Feeders at Project 4
Keeping our rescued elephants stimulated is one of the WFFT's Elephant Refuge main priorities. Recently the staff and volunteers have been installing grass feeding areas throughout WFFT's largest elephant habitat, the 44-acre Project 4. In [...]
April 2018
Squeak… Squeak… Squeak… Pop!!
Lately our WFFT Elephant Refuge Team of staff and volunteers have been finding more diverse enrichments for our rescued elephants, and especially for our 12 year old bull “Khan Kluey” who has been living at [...]
Perfect Project 4 Girls
Take a look at our happy ladies roaming their wonderful 18ha home at WFFT's Project 4.
Evening enrichment time for Boon Mee!
See how Boon Mee curls her trunk inside her enrichments to reach the tasty fruit and munches away on the long grass we have places around the enclosure. The pieces of fresh fruit she leaves [...]
Thong Ma and Poom Puang cannot get enough of Project 4
Take a look at these very special old ladies, doing what they want, when they want, how they want. They spend their days wandering around WFFT’s Project 4 with 5 other rescued elephants, foraging, swimming [...]
March 2018
Check out my trunk!
What can be used to scratch, sniff, smell, spray and make incredible sounds? An elephants' most famous and one it's most important features - it's trunk. This amazing tool has many uses, from sucking up [...]
Check out Chok Dee taking a refreshing dip on this hot day.
Check out Chok Dee taking a refreshing dip on this hot day. Covering herself in mud is a great natural way for her to keep cool. See Chok Dee's profile at https://bit.ly/2pNo1hJ
Enter the secret of the fabrication of our Grass feeders for Project4!
This week some of the WFFT Elephant Refuge Staff and Volunteers were given a special project on Project 4 : building new grass feeders for the elephants ! Bigger, stronger and integrated in the landscape. [...]
Thong Ma & Poom Puang walk with indefectible special lovers
As you will have noticed if you follow us, we were hosting Joan Pearson, a long-term supporter of WFFT whose generosity and fundraising have allowed us to progress to where we are now. Without the [...]
Mee Chai and Gan Da become Best Friends!!!
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Happy National Elephant Day /// Chang Thai Day (วันช้างไทย)
Today we celebrate Chang Elephant Day. Take a look at these old girls enjoying some freedom at WFFT's Project 4. After years of abuse they can once again be elephants.
Joan and Co. from Australia strikes again for the happiness of all the WFFT Elephant Refuge residents
Joan and Co. from Australia not only gave WFFT Elephant Refuge the opportunity to rescue the beautiful Mee Chai, but they also treated all of our Ele’s with mountains of fresh fruit and vegetables! As [...]
BREAKING NEWS: ELEPHANT RESCUE! MEE CHAI ARRIVES AT WFFT
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‘Fruit Wrap Starfish Shell’ for Thong Phoon
Our motivated volunteers design creative enrichments everyday, sometimes several times per day for elephants such as Thong Phoon to further encourage natural behavior. Each team always alternate different designs to be sure the elephants don't [...]
The heat… Perfect excuse to enjoy some water games!
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Recovering Natural and Wild Behavior, that also what Project 4 offers
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Time for a cool bath at Project 4 for Alicia
We keep seeing how Project 4 is a kind of promised land for WFFT's rescued elephant herd. A retirement place which, even more than the other enclosures at the centre, allows these majestic creatures to [...]
February 2018
When nature decides to put some extra personal touch to Project4
When nature decides to put some extra personal touch to Project4 Of course, the project 4 has been imagined and designed to welcome rescued elephants and to create new gibbon islands, but nature recognizes what [...]
Magic Moment in Project 4!
WFFT's biggest project yet, Project 4, destined to accommodate over 20 elephants, gibbons on islands, and other rescued animals is a special pocket of land. A special haven some poor souls who had a sad [...]
