— Mae Geao —
Mae Geao, who arrived in late December 2006, was born somewhere around 1935-1940. Her name means ‘crystal glass’. Thanks for sponsoring her rescue goes collectively to Hinesh Patel and to the family of Trudy Broxap for giving a donation in her memory via Eleaid, a British charity.
Mae Geao was a Karen-owned elephant who worked in Mae Sariang and Phrae logging until the ban in 1989. At that time she was sent to Burma to continue her logging career for the next 17 years. Finally making her way back to Thailand 2 years ago, she was put to work at a trekking camp. It was soon obvious that she was getting too old to work. She was first seen by park staff and a group of volunteers on a Jumbo Express. The elephant camp owner expressed an interest to sell and a price was negotiated.
Since her arrival at Elephant Nature Park, Mae Geao spends most of her time wandering and eating. She arrived extremely thin with dry, cracked skin and thick scabs on her forehead and tailbone from being hit with the ‘hook’. She is easy to identify by an ‘R’ brand on her back right hip (from her time working for a Burmese timber company) and her half-length tail, resulting from an old injury inflicted by another elephant.
She has yet to bond with anyone, but we hope she will make friends in the future.
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