Help take extra special care of an elephant that is close to your heart. 
ROOM TO ROAM FUNDRAISER
A major expansion of the Female Asian Elephant Habitat is on the horizon. Fundraising is already off to an incredible start, thanks to everyone who gave so generously for GivingTuesday and Year End 2025.
Your Gift Creates Space
Space transforms lives. It rebuilds bodies worn down by captivity, nurtures emotional healing, and opens the door to friendship. With approximately 200 more acres of room to roam in the Female Asian Habitat, Maia, Rana, Mara, Bambi, Guillermina, Baby, and those still to come, will have even more freedom to live as elephants should.
The upcoming expansion will cost $767,670 and includes 3,000 meters of elephant fencing as well as the construction of one huge new yard, adding approximately 200 more acres of space.
Your gift today brings to life a vast new landscape of choice, discovery, and transformation.
Give and Grow their Habitat
Every dollar helps to expand their home, opening them up to a new world of possibilities. Find out what your gift makes possible.
Give and Grow their Habitat
Every dollar helps to expand their home, opening them up to a new world of possibilities.
Why Space Is So Essential
Before sanctuary, elephants lived in enclosures far too small for both their bodies and minds, deprived of the freedom to make their own choices. Many spent years performing in circuses or standing on display in zoos, confined to small, unnatural spaces of hard earth or concrete, some even chained. They suffered mentally, physically, and emotionally, coping with the extreme deprivation by gradually adapting away from their natural, healthy way of being and their true selves.
At sanctuary, vast spaces allow elephants to walk farther than they have in decades—and for some, farther than they have ever walked in their lives. They roam freely, exploring as they choose. As their bodies grow stronger, they re-engage with their surroundings, and their inner light begins to return. In this safety, many find the courage to open themselves to companionship, forming bonds with others who share a similar journey. With time, they rediscover what it means to be an elephant, and their true selves reemerge.
Our goal is greater than space alone. It is about the healing, peace, and dignity that inevitably comes with wide open spaces. Expanding by approximately 200 acres means giving elephants more of all of this.
Thank You
Sanctuary isn’t just a place—it’s a new beginning, peace of mind. For the first time, elephants have a life that is all about them. Thank you for helping to build and provide a future for elephants in need.
Every dollar makes a difference. Every share builds their home. Every one of us can change a life. Forever.
Scott and Kat Blais
Co-founders Global Sanctuary for Elephants
and Elephant Sanctuary Brazil
