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Elephant Poachers

noreply@blogger.com (Anthony) — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 06:25:00 +0000

"They int com'n back here to poach no tusks, Them Ivory boys have finished there game"

Claudia the Elephant Temptress

noreply@blogger.com (Anthony) — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 06:03:00 +0000

Elephant Gossip XIV

noreply@blogger.com (Anthony) — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 00:49:00 +0000

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Elephant Gossip XIII

noreply@blogger.com (Anthony) — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 21:29:00 +0000

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Elephant Gossip XII

noreply@blogger.com (Anthony) — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 19:05:00 +0000

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Elephant Gossip XI

noreply@blogger.com (Anthony) — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 04:52:00 +0000

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Elephant Gossip X

noreply@blogger.com (Anthony) — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 05:32:00 +0000

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Elephant Gossip IX

noreply@blogger.com (Anthony) — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 22:27:00 +0000

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Lek Chailert, a true savior of animals.

noreply@blogger.com (Anthony) — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 01:23:00 +0000

The funny, exciting and charming story of young Lek Chailert, a true savior of animals.

Mubu The Little Girl Who Made a Difference

Forty-four years ago she was just an unknown six-year-old girl living with her family in a hill tribe in the remote forests of northern Thailand. She had never seen a television set or a telephone. Her village nicknamed her Lek because she was a very small child.
One person, her grandfather, the village shaman saw something special about the little girl. He gave her a secret name. Mubu. The child who climbed trees like a monkey.
When he trekked in the mountainous wilderness looking for herbal plants to heal the ailments of his people, he brought Mubu with him. To teach her the mysteries of Nature.
One day he brought a baby gibbon home with him. The animal’s hand had been badly injured in a hunter’s trap.
Mubu was both excited and distressed to see the sad, sweet-looking baby.
“You are my little animal doctor,” her grandfather told the girl. “You can help heal this gibbon.”
She felt so proud that her grandfather had such faith in her. And thus began Mubu’s first adventure as an animal savior. She became both a healer and a playmate for the frightened animal she named Mu-Mu.
Mubu helped to renew little Mu-Mu, and with her grandfather returned the gibbon to her family in the forest. Then she continued rescuing and restoring needy animals, from owls to elephants—for the rest of her life.
Today Mubu is renown and respected all over the world for saving mistreated elephants and other endangered wild animals, for caring for sick street animals and initiating programs to protect the environment. She is now known as Sangduen (Lek) Chailert, who in 1996 established The Elephant Nature Park, north of Chiang Mai.

Lek was originally Mubu, the little girl who made a difference.

Children will love reading the first Mubu adventure: Mubu & Mu-Mu, The Little Animal Doctor.

Lek’s Awards

HERO OF PLANET from FORD FOUNDATION AND NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC (Earth Pulse Project 2001 in Malaysia)
The Humane Society of The United States, Genesis awards on 15 March 2003
Hero of Asia from Times Magazine 2005
Earth Day Award from SOS Singapore 2006
The Honorary Degree Doctor of Science (Animal Husbandry) from Chiang Mai Rajabhat University 2006
Outstanding Woman Award, Gender and Development Research Institute, Thailand 2008
Shining World Compassion Award from Supreme Master International, August 2009
Readers Digest Asian of the Year 2010 (shared award)

Amazon Introduces Mubu & Mu-Mu, The Little Animal Doctor

noreply@blogger.com (Anthony) — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 06:39:00 +0000

World-famous Sangduen ("Lek") Chailert, founder of the Elephant Nature Park where the abused find sanctuary.

"When they first arrive at the park, after suffering the most hideous abuses, they are like the living dead. Their eyes are empty and they are so skinny.

Today I find them happy and healthy, joining new family groups, and starting to play again. That is most joyful to me and makes my heart smile."

Later this year Kennebec will be presenting a six-part series of children’s books based on Lek's childhood, when she was known as "Mubu, the little animal doctor".
The Mubu six-part book series is about the childhood of one of the planet’s great women. She is Sangduen (“Lek”) Chailert, granddaughter of a northern Thailand hill tribe shaman. Today she is famous all over the world for saving elephants and for creating an Elephant Nature Park in which these great animals can live free.

Once an anonymous child of three years living in a little known village without electricity, Lek made forays into the jungle with her beloved grandfather, who gave her a secret name, “Mubu.”

“It is the great thing I have to thank my family for,” Lek says, “They gave me a chance to love and care for animals. When I was young my grandfather rescued many wild animals caught in traps. He would heal them, and he would also let me help him and taught me how to take care of those animals. He called me the “Little Animal Doctor.” I was so proud of that title.

“I fell in love with all the animals I treated and made sure they were safe an eventually returned to the jungle.”

Beginning in November 2010, Kennebec Entertainment will begin bringing you books about Mubu’s jungle adventures and her profound love for her animals, and how the animals gave back to their “little animal doctor.”

The first book, Mubu & Mu-Mu, The Little Animal Doctor will tell the story of Mubu and a baby gibbon whose hand was seriously injured in a trap.

Your children will love the little animal doctor and her furry patient!

Elephant Gossip VIII

noreply@blogger.com (Anthony) — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 23:09:00 +0000

“Elephant Gossip VIII”

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“Elephant Gossip” is a new cartoon series from Kennebec Entertainment. We hope you enjoy it.

These comic strips are inspired by the elephants at Lek Chailert’s Elephant Nature Park.

http://www.elephantnaturepark.org/howyoucanhelp.htm

If you have funny elephant stories that we can turn into comic strips, please send your ideas to us at kennebecentertainment@gmail.com.

If you want, we’ll put your name on the comic strip you have inspired, and the names of the elephants who inspired you.

Peter Alexander

Creator and Producer

Elephant Gossip VII

noreply@blogger.com (Anthony) — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:21:00 +0000

“Elephant Gossip VII”

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“Elephant Gossip” is a new cartoon series from Kennebec Entertainment. We hope you enjoy it.

These comic strips are inspired by the elephants at Lek Chailert’s Elephant Nature Park.

http://www.elephantnaturepark.org/howyoucanhelp.htm

If you have funny elephant stories that we can turn into comic strips, please send your ideas to us at kennebecentertainment@gmail.com.

If you want, we’ll put your name on the comic strip you have inspired, and the names of the elephants who inspired you.

Peter Alexander

Creator and Producer

Elephant Gossip VI

noreply@blogger.com (Anthony) — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:12:00 +0000

“Elephant Gossip VI”

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“Elephant Gossip” is a new cartoon series from Kennebec Entertainment. We hope you enjoy it.

These comic strips are inspired by the elephants at Lek Chailert’s Elephant Nature Park.

http://www.elephantnaturepark.org/howyoucanhelp.htm

If you have funny elephant stories that we can turn into comic strips, please send your ideas to us at kennebecentertainment@gmail.com.

If you want, we’ll put your name on the comic strip you have inspired, and the names of the elephants who inspired you.

Peter Alexander

Creator and Producer

Elephant Gossip V

noreply@blogger.com (Anthony) — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 20:52:00 +0000

“Elephant Gossip V”

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“Elephant Gossip” is a new cartoon series from Kennebec Entertainment. We hope you enjoy it.

These comic strips are inspired by the elephants at Lek Chailert’s Elephant Nature Park.

http://www.elephantnaturepark.org/howyoucanhelp.htm

If you have funny elephant stories that we can turn into comic strips, please send your ideas to us at kennebecentertainment@gmail.com.

If you want, we’ll put your name on the comic strip you have inspired, and the names of the elephants who inspired you.

Peter Alexander

Creator and Producer

Elephant Gossip IV

noreply@blogger.com (Anthony) — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 01:03:00 +0000

“Elephant Gossip IV”

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“Elephant Gossip” is a new cartoon series from Kennebec Entertainment. We hope you enjoy it.

These comic strips are inspired by the elephants at Lek Chailert’s Elephant Nature Park.

http://www.elephantnaturepark.org/howyoucanhelp.htm

If you have funny elephant stories that we can turn into comic strips, please send your ideas to us at kennebecentertainment@gmail.com.

If you want, we’ll put your name on the comic strip you have inspired, and the names of the elephants who inspired you.

Peter Alexander

Creator and Producer

Elephant Gossip III

noreply@blogger.com (Anthony) — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 03:59:00 +0000

“Elephant Gossip III”

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“Elephant Gossip” is a new cartoon series from Kennebec Entertainment. We hope you enjoy it.

These comic strips are inspired by the elephants at Lek Chailert’s Elephant Nature Park.

http://www.elephantnaturepark.org/howyoucanhelp.htm

If you have funny elephant stories that we can turn into comic strips, please send your ideas to us at kennebecentertainment@gmail.com.

If you want, we’ll put your name on the comic strip you have inspired, and the names of the elephants who inspired you.

Peter Alexander

Creator and Producer

Elephant Gossip Cartoon

noreply@blogger.com (Anthony) — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 22:14:00 +0000

“Elephant Gossip II”

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“Elephant Gossip” is a new cartoon series from Kennebec Entertainment. We hope you enjoy it.

These comic strips are inspired by the elephants at Lek Chailert’s Elephant Nature Park.

http://www.elephantnaturepark.org/howyoucanhelp.htm

If you have funny elephant stories that we can turn into comic strips, please send your ideas to us at kennebecentertainment@gmail.com.

If you want, we’ll put your name on the comic strip you have inspired, and the names of the elephants who inspired you.

Peter Alexander

Creator and Producer

Elephant Gossip

noreply@blogger.com (Anthony) — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 07:35:00 +0000

“Elephant Gossip”

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“Elephant Gossip” is a new cartoon series from Kennebec Entertainment. We hope you enjoy it.

These comic strips are inspired by the elephants at Lek Chailert’s Elephant Nature Park.

http://www.elephantnaturepark.org/howyoucanhelp.htm

If you have funny elephant stories that we can turn into comic strips, please send your ideas to us at kennebecentertainment@gmail.com.

If you want, we’ll put your name on the comic strip you have inspired, and the names of the elephants who inspired you.

Peter Alexander

Creator and Producer

Mubu & Mu-Mu soul mates

noreply@blogger.com (Anthony) — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 01:35:00 +0000

We chased each other and swung on vines. I felt that Mubu and Mu-Mu were truly soul mates who belonged together forever…

Mubu & Mu-Mu the little animal doctor

noreply@blogger.com (Anthony) — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 04:56:00 +0000

Yes that’s right,

we’re coming!

Mubu & Mu-Mu the book

noreply@blogger.com (Anthony) — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 09:28:00 +0000

Shirley Francona, Santa Fe artist and heroine of The Earth Trembled, Kennebec Entertainment’s nature adventure film, comments on her exploits saving an elephant in Thailand. In Thailand she met the world-famous Sangduen (‘Lek’) Chailert, who founded the Elephant Nature Park, where abused elephants can find sanctuary. One of the main characters in Kennebec’s film is based on Lek Chailert.

Later this year Kennebec will be presenting a six-part series of children’s books about the childhood of Lek, when she was known as ‘Mubu, the little animal doctor.’

The Earth Trembled the Movie

noreply@blogger.com (Anthony) — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 09:19:00 +0000

I rescued an elephant mom in Thailand that was about to be killed for trying to protect her baby boy. Mimi is the mother and Bop is the adorable ‘little’boy who was horribly abused by employees of an animal show.

Shirley Francona for Kennebec 7 (#2)

The situation for elephants in Thailand is not so dissimilar from the plight of many wild animals across our planet today. Orangutans in Borneo, Bengal Tigers in India and elsewhere, pandas in China, gorillas in Rwanda. All endangered animals.

Man and beast compete for the ever-dwindling patches of land that have always sustained wild creatures. Land that humans fight over so they can grow food, cut down trees, dig up diamonds, and so forth.

From afar, however, people like me from countries like America, we have the impression that elephants are revered in Thailand. The country is shaped something like an elephant’s head. Elephants figure prominently in the art and history of the Kingdom. Elephants went to war on behalf of Thai kings.

Imagine my shock and disappointment when I arrived in Bangkok for the first time for the express purpose of trekking through Thai forests on the back of an elephant. The first elephant I saw was immersed in the middle of Bangkok’s infamous bumper-to-bumper traffic.

I was in a Toyota taxi, inching along amidst shiny black Mercedes, sleek BMWs, push carts selling food, and endless lines of motorcycles snaking in and out of traffic. Suddenly, ahead of me, looming above the sea of cars and motorcycles was a giant elephant, plodding slowly on the road like a mastodon among pigmies.

He was the first of many ‘begging’ elephants that I witnessed. They can be found in many Thai cities. Because logging was abolished in the Kingdom in the 1990s, owners of domestic elephants had to find a new line of work for their pachyderms. Begging. To quote Antoinette van de Water in her moving book, “The Great Elephant Escape,” ‘…She begs until all the bars and discos close. Drunks pull on her tail and try to make her drink beer. When (she) hungrily reaches out with her trunk to a restaurant table for leftovers, a customer throws hot coffee in her face….’

The scene I have described, where I saw my first begging elephant in Bangkok, appears in the screenplay, "The Earth Trembled". I do hope that you’ll have a chance to see the film after it’s made. You’ll see what noble, intelligent and sensitive animals elephants truly are.

Hugs,

Shirley

For Kennebec7

(4/15/2010)

Santa Fe

Kennebec7 Mubu

noreply@blogger.com (Anthony) — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 09:15:00 +0000

Shirley Francona for Kennebec7

Hi,

I’m Shirley Francona.

Perhaps you remember me. I was on YouTube, CNN, the BBC and local TV here in New Mexico.

I rescued an elephant mom in Thailand that was about to be killed for trying to protect her baby boy. Mimi is the mother and Bop is the adorable ‘little’ boy who was horribly abused by employees of an animal show.

Anyway, I was just a tourist on an elephant trek in northern Thailand when all this started. They said I stole an elephant and the army was searching for us in the jungle. I’m an artist from Santa Fe, and was creating celadon elephants, which people liked a lot.

Being the adventurous type, I decided to go to Thailand to experience elephants first hand. I had no idea about the cruelty and abuse inflicted on elephants, which are misused by some trekking companies, illegal loggers and people making money by forcing elephants to beg from tourists on crowded and polluted city streets.

Luckily I got to meet Lek Chailert, a famous Thai elephant savior, who started the Elephant Nature Park north of Chiang Mai. www.elephantnaturepark.org and her staff have saved more than forty elephants from lives of suffering since her sanctuary opened a few years back. Today you can see the elephants yourselves, living natural peaceful lives without the stress of human demands.

In our movie, “The Earth Trembled,” the character based on Lek is called ‘Mint,’ short for the Thai name, Mintra.

My son Andrew came to Thailand, using his own meager savings, to help me rescue Bop from the Big Ears, Big Teeth animal show that bought the baby and almost killed him.

I’m back in Santa Fe these days, writing a book about my adventures. Andrew has returned to Long Island University, and we talk often. Finally, I am reunited with my son, just as Mimi is together again with Bop. They are both kicking up their heels, elephant style, at Lek’s Elephant Nature Park.

I hope you will see our amazing adventures, surviving snakes and scorpions in the jungle, when the movie “The Earth Trembled” comes out. Then I look forward to meeting you when I next visit Mimi and Bop at the Park.

Hugs,

Shirley

For Kennebec7

(4/14/2010)

Santa Fe

Kennebec7 Mubu & Mu-Mu the little animal doctor

noreply@blogger.com (Anthony) — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 16:30:00 +0000

The Mubu six-part book series is about the childhood of one of the planet’s great women. She is Sangduen (“Lek”) Chailert, granddaughter of a northern Thailand hill tribe shaman. Today she is famous all over the world for saving elephants and for creating an Elephant Nature Park in which these great animals can live free.

Once an anonymous child of three years living in a little known village without electricity, Lek made forays into the jungle with her beloved grandfather, who gave her a secret name, “Mubu.”

“I fell in love with all the animals I treated and made sure they were safe an eventually returned to the jungle.”

Beginning in July 2010, Kennebec Entertainment will begin bringing you books about Mubu’s jungle adventures and her profound love for her animals, and how the animals gave back to their “little animal doctor.”

The first book, “Mubu & Mu-Mu” will tell the story of Mubu and a baby gibbon whose hand was seriously injured in a trap.

Your children will love the little animal doctor and her furry patient!