Blogs

Sunday Smile: Mara’s Relaxing Afternoon

This week’s Sunday Smile features a very relaxed Mara. After breakfast one morning, she found one of the little piles of hay that are spread throughout the habitat. They aren’t hidden, but they’re scattered in different areas each day with the idea that looking for them will keep the elephants’…...

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World Elephant Day 2023

At Elephant Sanctuary Brazil, our world revolves around elephants all of the time. But today, World Elephant Day, is a special day when those around the globe can take note and take action to help elephants in peril all over the world. World Elephant Day was founded over a decade…...

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EleFact Friday: Opportunities to Give

Happy EleFact Friday! We love to take every opportunity we can to share how grateful we are for our supporters and today is no different. After our recent wish lists were totally fulfilled, we received a few questions about the preferred and easiest ways that our supporters can donate to…...

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Elephant Food Prep

If you’ve ever wondered what it takes to feed six elephants in a day, have we got some delicious video for you! On this particular afternoon, we received a delivery of produce which was sorted, processed, the excess stored, and the day’s food distributed in buckets for each elephant to…...

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Update on Tamy’s Status

We have some encouraging news from the Mendoza Ecoparque: they have contracted Ingo to begin working with Tamy on the basic behaviors that he’ll need to learn for his sanitary requirements before importation to Brazil. These requirements are government dictated and were created to protect animals in Brazil. They include…...

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From Nicole: Caregivers Who Communicate

Visiting caregiver Nicole has been working with our staff in her time here at sanctuary, using her experience to create conversations about not only efficiency in working with elephants, but also communication amongst the staff. Here, she explains:...

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