World Elephant Day
World Elephant Day
World elephant day is celebrated on the 12th
August every year worldwide in aid of raising awareness for the elephant. On
project we celebrated in a number of ways, these were;-
·
Creating our own short awareness video;
volunteers and staff filmed the elephants, mahouts and volunteers in the field
as well as adding in a volunteers own opinion of her experience on project. The
video is aimed at giving regular backpackers and tourists a better
understanding of how elephants may be treated in camps and in hope of them
thinking twice about visiting one or at least to do their research first.
·
Elephant education class for the local children; volunteers and staff took part in educating some of the local children of what makes elephants happy – the forest compared to camps. Elephant body parts and the difference between Asian and African elephants. A paper mache elephant was constructed by volunteers then taken to the nursery for the young children to paint.
·
Song/rap contest; the mahouts joined us
on base in the evening for the video viewing and competition.3 groups took part
in the contest. Raps or songs were altered to focus on the elephants or the
village. As the mahouts current favorite song is by One Direction 1 group
changed the lyrics from ‘That’s what makes you Beautiful’ to ‘That’s what makes
you grey mu-nuh’ (very beautiful in Packinyaw!), the song was well written with
a focus on mahouts and their elephants and was voted for by a few vols and
mahouts but came last in the competition. The 2nd group changed the
lyrics in ‘I’m on a boat’ to ‘In Huay Pakoot’ by Lonely Island, this group
focused on living in Huay Pakoot and hiking with the elephants.
The winner of the competition changed the
lyrics to the Fresh prince of Bel-Air theme tune. It focused on the person
before coming to the village; it had comedy and won the attention of all! The
idea is to now perform this short tune in the forest with the mahouts and
elephants….Watch this space!!!
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