Tamy Archives - Global Sanctuary for Elephants

This Morning at Elephant Sanctuary Brazil

May 27, 2020

We filmed this footage this morning with our drone, named Wall-E. We don’t use Wall-E every day, but when we do want an unobtrusive check-in with the girls, we are grateful to have it. There are a few areas (and elephants!) identified with captions in the video. We wanted to…...

Mendoza4 Zoo Elephants Update

November 5, 2019

For some of you, this story and these elephants will be new; for others, you already know and love them, so forgive the repeats. These four lovely elephants are affectionately known as the Mendoza4. They live at the Mendoza Zoo in Argentina, but the zoo agreed to send them to…...

Mendoza Update

September 26, 2018

MENDOZA UPDATE: CARE FROM START TO FINISH It has been a little while without a Mendoza update, but as everything with sanctuary, that doesn’t mean there isn’t anything going on behind the scenes. One of the things we knew would have to happen before we could relocate any of…...

The Reality of What It Takes To Build a Sanctuary

December 18, 2017

People often ask how come things take so long. They want to know why elephants aren’t rescued already. It’s a valid question, which we understand- when elephants are waiting it always seems to take too long. But one of the biggest things people don’t seem to realize is that we…...

Mendoza4 Update: The Process of Giving Them Their Second Chance

October 26, 2017

This is Tamy, he is one of the four elephants that the Mendoza Zoo has agreed to send to Elephant Sanctuary Brazil. As you may have already picked up on from past posts, I am absolutely in love with this tired boy. Although he is labeled a ‘killer’ and is…...