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LAO ELEPHANT SANCTUARY& ELEFANTASIA PROGRAMME

Shelter for pregnant cows and calves

National Breeding Programme

Medically-assisted reproduction

NURSERY

TRAINING

Professional Mahout School

Vet Care Programme for mahouts and provision of First Aid Kits

Vet training sessions for students and civil servants

Elephant reconversion and creation of new income for mahouts

Revenue raising for conservation activities

Treks; elephant discovery & mahout training

Elephant Museum

TOURISM

Elephant Hospital

Mobile Veterinary Clinic (emergency)

National registration & vaccination programme

Scienti�c Research Unit & Laboratory

RESEARCH & CARE UNIT

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TO CARE AND PROTECT TRAIN & EDUCATE

INCREASE BIRTH RATE

ENSURE FINANCIAL AUTONOMY

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Project’s history

The Elephant Sanctuary Co. was established in 2010 by ElefantAsia1 founders Sebastien Duffillot & Gilles Maurer and Green Discovery2 founder, Inthy Deuansavan.

ElefantAsia is a France-based conservation group registered in 2001. The objective of ElefantAsia is to protect the remaining elephant population of Laos, formerly known as “The Land of a Million Elephants”.

Since 2005, ElefantAsia runs the “Lao Elephant Care and Management Programme” in cooperation with the Department of Livestock & Fisheries of the Ministry of Agriculture of Laos. ElefantAsia employs 10 persons in Laos. In 2012, ElefantAsia completed their 1500th veterinary care visit and had achieved the registration and microchipping over 400 elephants.

ElefantAsia operates in 3 provinces of Laos: Sayaboury, Champassak and Vientiane. In addition to its Veterinary Unit, ElefantAsia is also involved in the production of Environmental Education material and organises the popular Elephant Festival3 every year. In 2012, the Elephant Festival attracted over 150.000 visitors to Sayaboury making it the biggest tourist attraction in the province.

In 2006, Inthy Deuansavan, Sebastien Duffillot and Gilles Maurer entered a first partnership for the creation of an upmarket elephant trekking service branded “Elephant Adventures”4. In 2010, all three partners decided to jointly invest in the creation of the first Elephant Conservation Center of Laos. The Elephant Sanctuary Co. (corporate name) was registered as a joint venture in Sayaboury and work started on the banks of the Nam Tien Lake. In October 2011, the Elephant Conservation Center5 opened its doors to the public.

The expertise and reputation of ElefantAsia together with the know-how of Green Discovery founder and the tourism development potential in Sayaboury provide a positive context for implementing this new venture.

1 http:// www.elefantasia.org2 http://www.greendiscoverylaos.com3 http:// www.laoelephantfestival.com4 http:// www.elephantadventures.com5 http:// www.elephantconservationcenter.com

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Context

Laos is historically known as “The Land of a Million elephants”. Today Laos is home to no more than a mere 800 pachyderms. The largest terrestrial mammal and a major component of Laotian cultural heritage, the Asian elephant is under threat of extinction. Throughout the Asian continent wild elephant populations are threatened because of habitat loss and poaching. Domesticated elephants are often overworked and too tired to reproduce. Population forecasts of Laos’ elephants are grim.

If trends continue it is likely that Asian elephants will be extinct in Laos within 30 years. The future also remains bleak for the many mahouts and communities that live and work with elephants. Over 10,000 people depend on the revenue generated by the 450 domesticated elephants working in Laos.

The Elephant Conservation Center intends to supply alternative forms of income to mahouts and communities through the reconversion of logging elephants into ecotourism. Ecotourism is an environmentally friendly method of sustainable employment and poverty reduction for mahouts and their communities.

The creation of employment for mahouts at the Center in Sayaboury District allows income to be directly injected into the local economy through the provision of accommodation, food, goods and services. These services will all provide jobs for local community members of Sayaboury. The Elephant Conservation Center is NOT a tourist elephant camp. It is a fully staffed and equipped conservation facility providing educational, veterinary and ecotourism services.

Our Project

y Develop a profitable tourism business; y Develop tourism in Sayaboury province; y Reconvert logging elephants into fair and environmentally friendly ecotourism;

y Encourage natality by managing an elephant nursery; y Host ElefantAsia’s veterinary & conservation programmes; y Provide information on elephants to the public; y Protect an endangered species; y Ensure a sustainable income to mahout families; y Protect ancestral cultures and knowledges and a rich tropical ecosystem. y Support an environmentally friendly and fair business approach;

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Our difference

The Elephant Conservation Center is NOT an elephant camp. It is much more than that! Our concept is to bring tourists to the elephants and not elephants to tourists. Indeed all elephants currently working in Luang Prabang tourist camps were bought from Sayaboury.

We believe conditions in small, town-based camps cannot be ideal habitat for elephants. The food supply, diet, veterinary care and workloads are generally not meeting the standards of basic elephant needs in such camps.

The location of the Elephant Conservation Center in the Nam Tien Protected Area allows elephants to roam their traditional environment and feed on natural forest foods with any supplements purchased from local growers.

Besides providing the best quality and quantity in food and space requirements, the Elephant Conservation Center is unique in having the elephant conservation organization, ElefantAsia permanently based on site. With a decade of professional elephant care and practice in Laos, ElefantAsia brings a wealth of qualifications and credentials to the conservation center.

Elephant Conservation Center services

The Elephant Conservation Center caters to a diverse range of clients including international and national tourists. Attractions at the Center include elephant grooming, feeding, bathing and a Mahout School.

Guests participating in the Ecovolunteering package experience life as a Lao mahout from a week to a month. Life at the Mahout School aims to be simple; living, cooking and learning the ancient art of the mahout with all visitors having their own elephant to train with. Visitors to the Elephant Conservation Center are offered 4 options:

- Day trips; - Two days / one night stays - Three days / two nights stays;- Six day / five night Eco-volunterring.

We are aiming at a diversified clientele. International tourists (groups & individuals), regional tourists (especially from Thailand), foreign residents in Laos, Lao families, schoolchildren (study tours)...

The service that we propose is an encounter with the sacred animal of Laos in an authentic cultural and natural environment6.

6 See commercial brochure in appendices

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Our service is not “exclusive” but popular and affordable. In terms of quality, this translates into simple but solid buildings produced according to local designs and construction standards using local materials such as wood. While offering simple comfort and basic facilities in the first construction phase (2011-2012), the Conservation Center will be able to develop new markets by improving standards of buildings planned during the second phase (2013).

The Elephant Conservation Center - through its elephant hospital - also offers local and international veterinarians, researchers, and university students the chance to gain hands-on, practical training with Asian elephants. Extended stays by schools and universities are offered on demand.

Sayaboury

Statistics by the Lao National Tourism Administration indicate over 1.7 million international tourists visited Laos in 2008. The Sayaboury Province is a region of Lao PDR experiencing a surge in national and international tourists. This province is becoming internationally renowned due to the annual Elephant Festival held in the province every February. Sayaboury is known to be the greatest province in Lao PDR where domesticated elephants can be seen and experienced living in their traditional surrounds. Asian elephants are categorically the niche market of the Sayaboury Province7, with no other tourism ventures currently undertaken in the region.

Over the coming few years, Sayaboury will benefit from the ADB Tourism Development Programme (infrastructures, marketing...) that will boost the provincial tourism sector and bring Sayaboury even closer to Luang Prabang, the cultural and tourist hot spot of Laos, which already shows signs of saturation. Indeed, there is a growing interest from tourists and tourism professionals alike for destinations that can be combined with a tour to Luang Prabang. Current ongoing infrastructure development plan includes:

• Renovation of the Luang Prabang – Sayaboury road;• Construction of a bridge over the Mekong linking Luang Prabang and

Sayaboury provinces;• Construction of a new Kasi – Sayaboury road;• Renovation of the Sayaboury – Paklay – Kenthao – (Thailand) road;• Construction of a new airport in Sayaboury...

GIZ and the Lao National Tourism Administration have made Sayaboury one of the target provinces for their national tourism development plan8.

7 Sayaboury is home to 390 elephants (75% of the national stock)8 http://www.stdplaos.com/web-based/visiter_information/province_inlaos/sayabouly/sayabouly.html.

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The Site

The site of the Elephant Conservation Center is located on the banks of the Nam Tien lake 8 km from downtown Sayaboury and only 2,5 hours from Luang Prabang by road. The site is a provincial-level protected area consisting of a large artificial lake with many islands, bordered by hilly terrain with dense vegetation and the Phou Xang mountain chain visible on the East. The Conservation Center has been granted a 106 hectares concession (20 years renewable).

Built infrastructure occupy a 6 hectares strip of land located on the banks of the lake. The remaining forest area is used to house the elephants and undertake outdoor activities. Access to the site can be by either boat or car.

The Environment

The Elephant Conservation Center is built using international standards of environmental and clearing policies. We ensure vegetation connectivity is maintained and factors associated with clearing are minimal.

Local and sustainable materials are used in the construction, with energy efficient forms of power generation (solar) and waste management applied. The Elephant Conservation Center is a model ecotourism project in Laos.

Center’s Activities

• Reception and accommodation;• Trekking: bareback riding only! and walking with elephants;• Elephant Hospital and Nursery guided tours;• Visit of the Elephant Museum;• Elephant feeding;• Elephant bathing;• Elephant observation and photo safari;• Elephant handling demonstration;• Learning how to mount, dismount and ride an elephant;• Visit of the botanical gardens and botanical forest trek;• Elephant dung paper factory;• Souvenir & gift shop;• Food and beverages;• Lao cooking school;• Traditional Lao massage;• Lake activities – canoeing, swimming...

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StaffThree categories of personnel are working at the Conservation Center. Elephant mahouts, veterinary and hospital workers and hospitality/tourism staff. Each of the three departments have a manager that reports to the Center’s General Manager.

MahoutsEach elephant working at the camp has one or two mahouts living on site. Mahouts working at the Center are experienced mahouts with a long standing tradition of elephant handling. They are overseen by the Mahout Chief for any matters related to their employment or elephants.

Veterinary Unit / LabStaff employed at the elephant hospital are both Lao and foreign staff. The hospital is managed by ElefantAsia with no cost supported by the the Center apart from the Chief Vet’s salary. Foreign veterinarians and researchers join the hospital for medium/long term internships.

Hospitality / TourismStaff in charge of hospitality at the Center include guides, housekeepers, cooks, drivers, gardeners and maintenance personnel.

BuildingThe land available for construction is approximately 6 hectares. Work began on site in December 2010

PHASE 1 - COMPLETED - (2011):

y 1 Road (3,5 km); y Maintenance storage room (Gardener, carpenter...); y 1 Dormitory (with 5 partitioned double rooms); y 9 huts (double & twins); y 1 Museum/reception/gift shop; y 1 Restaurant & kitchen (30 seats + WC); y 1 Panoramic Sala; y 2 Amenities (showers & WC); y 1 Elephant Hospital and treatment area; y 1 Mahouts Training Center; y 1 Enclosure for pregnant elephants, young mothers & babies (nursery); y 1 Reproduction area with electric fencing; y Elephant Yard; y Elephant Saddlery; y Feeding trays and drinking troughs; y Stairs & platforms to climb on the elephants; y Staff lodging; y Boat pier + boat;

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Power

y Power system combines solar and diesel generator to regulate con-sumption peaks.

Water

y Water supply system; y Waste management system;

Transportation

y 1 Land Cruiser S78 car; y 2 motorbikes; y 1 Boat (15-20 Pax); y 1 traditional canoe with engine;

Administration & sales

y 1 Office/Administration (rented house downtown Sayaboury);

PHASE 2 - (2012-2013):

y 1 Guest House (6 double rooms w/ bathrooms + 1 office space). See architecture project overleaf.

y 2 Observation Towers; y Technical storage room (laundry, storage, maintenance)

Power

y Solar systems;

Transportation

y Minivan 12 seater;

Administration & sales

y 1 Sales office in Luang Prabang

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Plan du RdC

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CHAMBRE 2 Lits simples

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PROJET DE CONSTRUCTION D'UN GUEST HOUSE SANCTURAIRE DES ELEPHANTS

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Master Plan

Master Plan

Satellite Images

Location

CHINA

RDP LAOS

VIETNAM

THAILAND

BURMA

CAMBODIA

Paklay

Hongsa

PROVINCEDE SAYABOURY

Luang Prabang

Sayaboury

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Xieng Ngeun

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RDP LAOS

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THAILAND

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CAMBODIA

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Hongsa

PROVINCEDE SAYABOURY

Luang Prabang

Sayaboury

Vientiane

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RN13

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LAC DE RETENUE NAM TIEN

SAYABOURY

106 Ha Concession

Aerial View

106 Ha Concession

ElephantConservation Center

Aerial View

Panoramas

Lakeview Bungalows

Dormitory

Dormitory

Restaurant & bar Elephant Museum

Restaurant & bar Elephant Museum

The Elephants Yard

The Elephants Yard

Forest Hikes

Elephants Bath

Elephant Nursery

Elephant Hospital Complex

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elep

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fast

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r re

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rant

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port

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join

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mah

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r a

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ving

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phan

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activ

ities

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1 D

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you

w

ill h

ave

the

chan

ce t

o m

eet

the

vete

rina

ry t

eam

who

will

ac

com

pany

you

aro

und

the

hosp

ital

and

nurs

ery.

Tak

e th

e op

port

unity

to

feel

clo

ser

to t

he e

leph

ants

by

join

ing

them

and

th

eir

mah

outs

in

the

fore

st t

o pa

rtak

e in

the

ir m

orni

ng r

itual

. A

s yo

u st

roll

toge

ther

with

the

se m

agni

ficie

nt c

reat

ures

into

the

de

nse

fore

st o

f N

am T

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tak

e a

mom

ent!

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s is

the

REA

L la

nd

of e

leph

ants

! Fe

edin

g, g

room

ing

and

bath

ing

are

amon

g th

e ac

tiviti

es t

hat

you

will

und

erta

ke, c

ompl

eted

by

a th

orou

gh v

isit

of

the

mus

eum

. A

n as

sess

men

t re

latin

g to

you

r kn

owle

dge

of

the

elep

hant

and

ski

lls le

arnt

will

com

plet

e yo

ur b

asic

mah

out

trai

ning

!

Tran

spor

tatio

n, m

eals

& a

ccom

mod

atio

n ar

e in

clud

ed.

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GFr

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This

pac

kage

is y

our

gate

way

to t

he E

leph

ant

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ld! D

urin

g th

e w

eek,

you

will

sha

re t

he l

ife o

f a

mah

out

and

lear

n th

e ba

sics

of

thi

s ce

ntur

ies-

old

craf

t. A

ctiv

ities

inc

lude

sup

port

wor

k at

th

e Ce

nter

and

hos

pita

l; fe

edin

g th

e el

epha

nts;

ass

isti

ng t

he

mah

outs

in

all

the

phas

es o

f th

eir

wor

king

day

. A

n in

-dep

th

enco

unte

r w

ith t

he G

iant

s of

Lao

s.

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spor

tati

on, m

eals

& a

ccom

mod

atio

n ar

e in

clud

ed.

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Founders

Mr. Inthy Deuansavan

From humble beginnings Mr. Inthy Deuansavan’s life has been a ‘bona fide rags to riches’ story. Born in a cave during the Lao revolution some 40 years ago, Inthy moved from the Huaphan Province and was raised in Vientiane. A natural hard worker, Inthy’s first job was selling cigarettes door to door as a young boy. Recognizing Inthy’s entrepreneurial potential, his father, a famous Lao novelist, spent his life savings ensuring Inthy re-ceived the best educational opportunities available. Such op-portunities lead Inthy to the former USSR where he received his degree in Statistics from the University of Moscow. After completing his studies, Inthy returned to Laos and under-took his first and still highly successful enterprise, the famous Vi-entiane restaurant Khop Chai Deu. This restaurant is one of the most well-known and popular meeting points for both foreigners and locals alike. Still keen to expand his knowledge and passion for innovation, Inthy co-founded Wildside, a whitewater rafting and kayaking company, in 2000. It was through Wildside that In-thy developed his fervor for the tourism industry, and soon be-gun to run his own travel company.

Inthy independently launched what is now regarded as the leading eco-tourism and adventure travel specialist tour operator in Laos: Green Discovery Laos. Starting with just one office in the Vientiane capital, Green Discov-ery now has seven offices in six provinces in northern, central and southern Laos. Offering treks, elephant rides, kayaking, home-stay, motorbike tours and more, Green Discovery has everything to cater for any visitor’s needs in Laos.

While many people would settle down after reaching this degree of success, Inthy still has a multitude of ideas for innovative products to instigate. He continues to open more unique restaurants, and developed a chain of high-end boutique hotels. Named after his eldest daughter, the Inthira Group calls now four hotels in different cities throughout Laos its own. Always on the move, Inthy is right now in the process of realizing his dream of the ‘ultimate resort’ in southern Laos. This resort endeavors to include quality tree house accommodation with zip-line adventures, while still maintaining the beauty and tranquility of Laos plus the superior hospitality that Inthy’s companies are renowned for.

More than just a businessman, Inthy has ensured all of his companies strictly abide by their social, cultural and environmental responsibility. This excellence in tourism was demonstrated when Inthy was elected as a member to the Board of the Lao Tourism Association in 2008.

Far from his first job as a cigarette vendor, Inthy now presides over his conglomerate of Lao-based companies and more than 300 Lao people are directly employed in this group he created. The future? One thing is for certain: Inthy will not rest and certainly continue to be a champion in providing innovative tourism and hospitality services to clients from all over the world visiting the Lao PDR.

MM. Sébastien Duffillot and Gilles Maurer

Sebastien Duffillot and Gilles Maurer founded the charity group ElefantAsia back in 2001. In 2002 the two frenchmen organized a 1,300 km long journey on el-ephant back across Laos, the former ‘Land of a Million Elephant’.

This ‘Elephant Caravan’, as the public knows it, received strong media cover-age in France and Asia and led the two partners to seek funds for the imple-mentation of a nation-wide elephant conservation programme.

Since 2005, ElefantAsia has opened an of-fice at the National Animal Health center

(Department of Livestock & Fisheries). The charity now employs over ten people, mainly vets, who undertake registration of all domesticated elephants of Laos, provide on-site training to their mahouts and provides free veterinay care to the 450 or so working elephants of Laos.

In order to invert the trend that is leading Lao elephants to extinction, Gilles and Sebastien have created innova-tive new conservation solutions ranging from Baby Bonuses for pregnant elephant owners to the organisation of the now famous ‘Lao Elephant Festival’ which pays tribute to the national animal emblem of Laos every year in the sayaboury province.

ElefantAsia has since then grown in stature and is now recognized worldwide as one of the leading elephant conservation groups with in-situ operations in Asia. Partnering with Thai elephant conservationists and building a network of partners in Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Cambodia and Myanmar, ElefantAsia is becoming one of the main actors in the field of elephant conservation in SouthEast Asia.

With several international media broadcasting documentaries on the work undertaken by ElefantAsia in Laos (BBC, Animal Planet, all major French TV channels) and an outstanding number of publications in international newspapers and magazines (Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, le Monde etc...), the media buzz generated by the non-profit is now serving the latest, and most elephantine - project of the team: the first-ever Elephant Sanctuary of Laos.

This new venture is aiming at offering a shelter to pregnant cow elephants and their offsrping when they are born, while providing all working elephants of the Sayaboury province with a state-of-the-art elephant hospital capable of treating patologies that the current mobile clinics are unable to handle while working in logging camps.

Lao Elephant Sanctuary Co. Ltd.Nam Tien Protected Area

Sayaboury, Lao PDR

Tel: + 856-30-9471308Mob: +856-20-96590665

Email: seb@elephantconservationcenter.comMarketing@elephantconservationcenter.com

www.elephantconservationcenter.com

Trip Advisor: http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attraction_Review-g2642380-d2624675-Reviews-Elephant_Conservation_Center-Sayaboury.html

Facebook: elephant conservation center

Twitter: laoselephantCC

ECC online resources:

• Presentation document of the ECC:

http://issuu.com/sebduf/docs/presentation_ecc_2012?mode=window&backgroundColor=%23222222

• ECC Rate Card 2012-2013:

http://issuu.com/sebduf/docs/rate_card_ecc_2012_2013?mode=window&backgroundColor=%23222222

• Elephant Conservation Center official Website: http://www.elephantconservationcenter.com/index.php

• ECC Brochure: http://issuu.com/sebduf/docs/brochure_ecc_new?mode=window&backgroundColor=%23222222

• ECC Trip Advisor page: http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attraction_Review-g2642380-d2624675-Reviews-Elephant_Con-

servation_Center-Sayaboury.html

• ECC Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/elephant-conservation-center/123614824388181

• ECC Youtube Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45KPm-m6Mps

Travel Guides & Magazines articles on ECC :

• Lonely Planet travel guide (excerpts):

http://issuu.com/sebduf/docs/lonely_planet?mode=window&backgroundColor=%23222222

• Le Petit Futé travel guide (excerpts):

http://issuu.com/sebduf/docs/petit_fute?mode=window&backgroundColor=%23222222

• Magazine Article on ECC (Champa Holidays, Laos) :

http://issuu.com/sebduf/docs/42-45_final?mode=window&backgroundColor=%23222222

ElefantAsia, Elephant Adventures, Elephant Festival related resources:

• ElefantAsia official website: http://www.elefantasia.org/?lang=en

• ElefantAsia facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/ElefantAsia/133225699727

• Elephant Adventures Co. website: http://www.elephantadventures.com/

• Elephant Adventures Co. facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Elephant-Adventures/119740024734476

• Lao Elephant Festival website: www.laoelephantfestival.com

• Land of a Million Elephants website: http://www.landofamillionelephants.com.au/

• Land of a Million Elephants (film) Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/landofamillionelephants

• Land of a Million Elephants video link: http://vimeo.com/34489947

• Youtube video of Lao Elephant Festival 2010 in Sayaboury : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Mb40zTcyqE