Only freedom is species-appropriate
Elephants are extremely intelligent, social and caring animals that are characterized by their strong sense of family. They show empathy, support each other and offer each other comfort. As these majestic animals are now seriously threatened with extinction, we are actively working to protect them.
How to save lives and raise awareness
With a donation or sponsorship, you can actively support elephant conservation projects in Laos, Cambodia and Thailand, all of which were founded or co-founded by the Save Elephant Foundation. We present these projects in more detail under the menu item Support. Your financial support makes it possible to provide medical care and the most species-appropriate care possible for these often maltreated and traumatized animals. In their new environment, the elephants can simply be themselves without having to entertain us humans in any way. They can also build new relationships with other members of their species – cared for with love and bananas, as can be seen in the documentary of the same name, Love & Bananas.
You can also support our work and that of other animal welfare associations and organizations by actively helping to raise awareness. Many people are unaware of the unimaginably terrible suffering to which elephants are subjected from an early age so that we humans can later “ride” on their backs and supposedly enjoy their performances and tricks in shows and at festivals. In the Education menu item, we provide you with a wide range of information that you can use to sensitize people in your social network or environment to the issue of elephant tourism and the associated suffering of the animals.
Please help to bring about a change in awareness in our society in order to sustainably improve the lives of current and hopefully future generations of elephants for their sake.
