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  1. Update: There's Baby Elephant Hospital on Channel 5 following the work of a hospital in Thailand that's devoted to treating elephants.   The series starts on 16th September at 7pm on Channel 5. 

     

    Date for your diary:  12 August 
    It's World Elephant Day. 

    Find out more here

    It's back! Don't miss this on Channel 5 on Tuesday 14 June 2022.

    The programme is called Elephant Hospital and it's the world's largest elephant hospital nestled in the forests of Thailand in Lampang. It's open 24/7 and is a sort of NHS for elephants. The team of highly skilled and very dedicated staff never know what sort of problems the elephants will be arriving with but they all do their very best to help them.  

    Paul O'Donoghue and Katheirne Connor head back to the hospital for this new series (four parts).  It cares for over 100 sick, injured or neglected animals every year.  And if the elephants can't come to the hospital, the vets go to the elephants!

    This is a heart-warming series with uplifting and unexpected stories, be they treating an elephant with cancer or a baby elephant being fed with a giant milk bottle!  There's an elephant with severe diarrhoea, and a male elephant who has been attacked by another bull elephant.  It's all go, as the incredible team try to help each elephant as best they can. 

    Find out more from Channel 5

    I am looking for ways to donate to this hospital - watch this space

    It's supported by Friends of the Asian Elephant and here is their Facebook page.

    Their website is here.

    #ElephantHospital 

    THANK YOU to everyone at the hospital for all you do for these wonderful elephants. 

    The World Elephant Day website has LOTS of information about ways to help elephants, whatever day of the year it is so please take a look at it here.

    See our list of elephant conservation charities here

    How about an elephant conservation holiday? 
    Take a look at the range of choices 
    with Responsible Travel


    You could adopt an orphan elephant
    from the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust
    Image ©David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust

     

  2. Don’t miss it!   Meet the Bears on Natural World

    Tonight, (that’s BBC2 at 8pm UK time, 4 November 2019), Natural World takes a look at the habits of a family of bears in “Meet the Bears”. 

    The programme looks at the skills they need to learn to survive, such as finding food, raising their cubs, facing rivals and habitat loss.

    It introduces bears in all their different forms from the spectacled bear to the sloth bear, the polar bear and the grizzly bear.

    The footage should be quite something to see and there are short clips to enjoy while we’re all waiting.

    Hugh Bonneville is the narrator.  If you miss it, the programme should be available on IPlayer shortly after viewing, and there’s the most beautiful gallery of pictures you can take a look at here.

    Visit Meet the Bears’ website here 

    You’ll find a list of bear charities here.

    PS The week after, on 11 November 2019, Natural World looks at Saving the Orangutan.

     

  3. This tiger has no voice - so please give this poor animal your voice.

    The tiger is in a tiny cage in Greece.  

    In Rhodes in Greece, the Esperos Village Hotel is keeping a tiger in inhumane conditions.

    All our signatures are needed to urge the hotel to release the tiger to a sanctuary now.   

    The hotel owns thousands of acres of land but this tiger is in a tiny cage.  The only source of shade is a metal container - and that can get boiling hot in the summer heat.  

    The tiger is supposed to be an attraction for its guests - but visitors often throw stones and rocks on top of the netting covering the tiger's enclosures. 

    The tiger needs to go to a sanctuary that can offer a more natural home and veterinary care.   

    Sign the petition urging the Esperos Village Hotel to release its tiger to a sanctuary.