helping
elephants
helping
elephants
elephants
We're passionate about elephant conservation
Where do our donations go?
We donate money from every sale to several awesome charities working to help these magnificent creatures.
For many years we have been involved with the Save Elephant Foundation based at the Elephant Nature Park in the Mae Taeng Valley, Chiang Mai, Thailand.
The Save Elephant Foundation supports Asian elephants that have been abused or neglected, by providing a safe haven and a caring atmosphere where the elephants are rehabilitated both mentally and physically.
The foundation also educates local people on the humane ways of caring for their elephants in order to change perceptions of elephant handling for the future.
We have been very impressed by the work of the foundation, and their founder Lek Chailert, and want to do more to help them save these magnificent creatures.
We do this by offering the Save Elephant Foundation financial donations which can go towards many essential things such as the facilities at the Park, caring for the elephants, local community educational outreach, rescue and rehabilitation programs and research.
time is running out
elephants need our help
Once common throughout Africa and Asia, elephant numbers fell dramatically in the 19th and 20th centuries, largely due to the ivory trade and habitat loss. While some populations are now stable, poaching, human-wildlife conflict and habitat destruction continue to threaten the species.
In addition to supporting the Save Elephant Foundation, we also regularly donate to two other UK based elephant charities that concentrate on helping elephants in other parts of the world:
David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation
To help the plight of African elephants we are contributing through the David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation towards their Waterways project in Uganda and their elephant orphanage in Zambia.
Elephant Family
In India and other parts of South East Asia we support some of the many projects run by Elephant Family. Their work includes saving and maintaining habitats and working with communities to avoid conflict where elephant habitats and human civilisations overlap.
save elephant foundation
Lek is an award-winning conservationist who has been working for over two decades to improve the lives of elephants in Asia. A film by Jez Lewis, Elephant Mother (2022) offers a great insight into the work of Lek at her Elephant Nature Park.
These organisations promise to ensure that 100% of all monies donated by LoudElephant are channelled, in full, directly to their projects that we feel most passionate about.
elephant parade
Elephant Parade is a Social Enterprise that was founded in 2006 by father and son, Marc and Mike Spits, to help raise money for elephant conservation, and in particular elephant hospitals. Marc and Mike were moved by the plight of a baby elephant named Mosha who had lost a leg after stepping on a landmine, and held their first exhibition in their native Netherlands in 2007. In 2008 Mosha became the first elephant to receive a prosthetic leg and has since gone from strength to strength!
Elephant Parade has run exhibitions all around the world raising awareness of the issues facing elephants through art. Each exhibition features a display of between 30 and 250 elephant statues that have each been decorated by an artist or celebrity. The elephant statues are then auctioned off with the majority of the funds going towards elephant conservation and awareness projects.
Elephant Family recently teamed up with Elephant Parade to help them raise awareness by promoting the auction of the Elephant Parade UK Tour elephants. After hearing about this we had to get involved! Now we own three of these magnificent elephant statues.
what a beaut!
Meet Spirit
Spirit was designed by TV presenter Alex Jones and designer Mercy Delta for the UK National Tour 2014. Alex has been quoted as saying "The Elephant Parade national tour is a vibrant and creative public art initiative that is in aid of such a good cause and is also accessible to so many people across the UK." And we totally agree, what a great way to raise awareness for such an important cause, we're very glad to be able to play a part!
You can get your own Limited Edition Elephant Parade replica elephants from us by clicking the button below. But don't worry though, they're all of a much more manageable size!
