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BEES - Burm & Emily's Elephant Sanctuary

A safe and natural home for Elephants. NO RIDES, NO TRICKS - Just Elephants Simply Being Elephants. A safe natural home for rescued and retired elephants.

NO RIDES, NO TRICKS - Just Elephants Being Elephants.

07/10/2025

Can you spot Mae Kam? 🐘🌿

High up in the lush greenery this images captures beautiful Mae Kam who is visible and Mae Dok hidden somewhere amongst the leaves.

Guide Em takes a rest and looks to be striking a pose on the rocks beneath 😉📸

It was a hot and sunny day today, rain or shine the elephants love spending their days exploring their sanctuary home. 🌿🌳🐘

It is such a sight to see elephants - Happy, Flappy and Thriving!

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🙏🏻Love, Respect, Protect🙏🏻

02/10/2025

⛈️We have had ongoing heavy rains and storms in our region causing major flooding as well as frequent power and internet cuts 🛜

We apologize for the lack of updates and if you have been waiting to hear from us. We are working to answer all emails,enquiries and bookings when signal allows. Do reach out again if you haven’t heard from us as sometimes it seems our emails have sent but then the signal drops again and we cant always be sure.🙏🏻

We are all safe and sound here in the mountains although we are sad to report some of our land by the river - elephants habitat area has been severely affected by the floods. The floods have ripped through the low land areas and many in the community are badly affected 🥺

Mae Kam and Mae Dok have been spending most days high up in the mountains - rain or shine they love to spend their days exploring and foraging in their sanctuary. ❤️🌿🌳🐘

Thank you all for your messages of love and concern.
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Our team continues to work hard round the clock keeping the wheels turning. We are currently working on building more housing for our beautiful elephant caretaker family ❤️🏡

19/09/2025

🐘🌿🌳Elephants in Nature🌳🌿🐘

Pure bliss ✨ Foraging and Friendship 💞

14/09/2025

Observing Elephants 👀🌿🐘

Thank you to our 3night/4day guests for joining our program this week. 🙏🏻❤️

🌳🌿🐘This image was captured on Friday when they went out exploring the forest, field and along the stream watching elephants just be elephants. 🌳🌿🐘

📧Email us to book a stay [email protected]

13/09/2025

🎉🐈HELPING ANIMALS AND THE COMMUNITY 🐕🎉

What a day! 🤯🙏🏻❤️🌿🥰

Thank you to every single person who donated to BEES Elephant Foundation - BEF and all those who have come together to bring aid to the animals of Maechaem 🙏🏻❤️🥳

Today we Sterilized-

40 Dogs 🐕
101 Cats 🐈

And 40 Dogs received combo vaccinations 🐶💉

Over 30 animals also received treatments of deworming, deflea/tick and antibiotics 💊

HUGE THANKS goes out to Soi Dog Foundation for Sponsoring the Dog Spays, Amandine HandToPaw and her amazing team, Department of Livestock and The Maechaem Municipality team.

Also a very special Thank you to who caught up an incredible 20 Cats 🐈 from their village and traveled 61km to join the event. 🙏🏻

Team work makes the dream work! ❤️

If you would like to support our work for the Elephants, Animals and Community consider a donation to BEES Elephant Foundation via PayPal 🙏🏻

🔗 PayPal.me/beeselephantfoundati

11/09/2025

🌿❤️🐘 Mae Kam and Mae Dok 🐘❤️🌿

The girls are loving feasting on the Bana and Napier grasses. This has become the new regular feasting place for at least 30 minutes to an hour everyday. 🌳😍🐘

We apologize for the lack of posts during this time. There was a terrible car accident that occurred in Chiang Mai that involved a car crashing into a power pole and huge number of power poles coming down. We have been told it is causing ongoing effects to power across the district. We have about 50% power, so thankfully have a little light and can very very slowly charge our phones, but the signal has also been affected and Internet access is limited at this time.

Please bear with us if you are waiting to hear from us. We may not be able to answer your emails and messages during this time due to the ongoing power and signal situation. 🛜📶⚠️🙏🏻🌿❤️🐘

06/09/2025

🐘🌿❤️The Magic of Rainy Season ❤️🌿🐘

Rainy season brings upon the lush vibrant green paradise for the elephants to enjoy. 💚☺️

Elephants need room to roam. 🌿🐘

📸This picture was captured by guide EM yesterday. Mae Dok on the left and Mae Kam on the right - in their Sanctuary. Doing what they do best, just being elephants 🌿❤️🐘

We are lucky to have access to over 300acres of forest land and fields that we are working to protect, preserve and restore for our elephants and wildlife. 🌳🌱🍃

Each day the elephants go out exploring and foraging on specially planted grasses in our fields and on nature’s bounty in the forest. 🌳

03/09/2025

Thank you to each and everyone person who sent so much love for P’or Kham and our team after the loss of our beloved Grandma Elephant Thong Dee last month 🙏🏻❤️🐘

Tonight we gathered as a team for a delicious feast together and were able to pass on the collected donations, as well as share your many messages of support, love and appreciation with P’or Kham - he was very choked up and touched. 🥹

Thank you to every single person who donated to show appreciation for P’or Kham for his devotion to Thong Dee 💞🙏🏻🌿🐘

Your kindness has allowed us to gift P’or Kham an extra special gift of 50,000THB to help support his family now he will retire from being an elephant caretaker due to his age and decline in health.

With the donation he also received a photo package - stunning professionally captured photos by World Animal Protection Thailands award winning photographers.

Thank you WAP Thailand for sending these stunning images of P’or Kham and his girl Thong Dee for him to always look back on ❤️

The love and appreciation from each and every one of you has touched this lovely man’s heart.

💝 Our heartfelt thanks goes out to all of you. 🙏🏻

P’or Kham - Thank You for your love and care of our precious Thong Dee, your kindness and devotion will never be forgotten ❤️🙏🏻🐘

31/08/2025

🙏🏻🌿❤️Love, Respect, Protect 🙏🏻❤️🌿

After the huge landslide and massive flooding across the region - BEES Elephant Foundations President (Burm) Pornchai Rinkaew helped to Co-ordinate two teams to go out today to support those affected.

Some of the BEES team joined our local Mae Tan villagers in the efforts to bring aid and support to victims and the volunteers after the devastating landslides and flooding in Pang Aung. Setting up a big stall of free drinks and food to hand out to volunteers and families affected who are still in shock, working hard to clean up the area. There are sadly still people missing and so many homes destroyed. 💔

The second team went to deliver donations to the Ban Naklang community and to our friends over at KSES after the flash floods tore through their sanctuary and community causing serious damage to their base site, homes and crops.

Our hearts go out to all those affected during these difficult times. Susu Na. 🙏🏻❤️‍🩹

23/08/2025

💚The Maechaem mountains really come to life in rainy season. Everything is so lush and green, the elephants love to spend most of their days up in the forest feasting. 💚

🌳It’s also a perfect time to plant trees on our new plot of land. We were able to purchase another small piece earlier this year. 🙏🏻🌿🐘 We are trying to buy up land as much as possible to return the landscape to be a lush oasis for birds and other wildlife to thrive, as well as having some of the trees to produce food for the elephants into the future. 🌿

A big Thank you to this week’s guests Jennifer, Randy, Lilianna and Margot for helping make enrichment for the elephants, participating in fun activities in the community, loving on our many rescue doggies and kitties as well as spending time helping plant trees in the rain and at times in the stifling hot Sunshine.
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Together we can make a difference 🙏🏻❤️🌿🐘

21/08/2025

It’s hard to believe a week has passed since Thong Dee left us. It is very quiet here and when we look at her night shelter it’s hard not to tear up. 🥺

Thank you all for your lovely words, kind messages, condolences and support. Thank you to each and everyone person who has donated to P’or Kham, we will ensure he receives your kind donations and messages of gratitude, love and support.
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Here is a recent photo captured of Mae Dok and Mae Kam having a soak in one of their favorite rainy season splash zones in the fast flowing stream. There is plenty of water this time of year.

Rescue doggie Gizmo who was Thong Dee’s little companion has been spending more time out on the forest walks, it seems he has found a new duty keeping an eye on these beautiful ladies as they go about their days ❤️

17/08/2025

We are deeply touched by all your messages of condolences, love and support. Please bear with us during this time, we may not be able to answer everyone but we are so grateful for your messages. Many of you have reached out with special words for P’or Kham and some have sent donations to support for him and his family🙏🏻 .We have read many messages to him, he is touched and we will gather all the very best photos we have of him and Thong Dee and print for him and pass your kind donations and messages to him 🙏🏻💛🥹🐘

We also wish to say a huge Thank you to the incredible group of Michigan University students who have seen us through this week on our Visitor Program that came to us through our amazing partners at WorkingAbroad Projects

Arriving on Monday afternoon to get stuck in, they lovingly prepared Thong Dee’s salads (little did we know these would be her last 💔), made Enrichment for Mae Kam and Mae Dok, observed the elephants in the forest and field, helped fix the damaged road that the elephant food trucks frequent, were so incredibly understanding and caring when we needed to be with Thong Dee while they continued to do activities in the community and have just been such amazing, loving, caring and helpful humans. Yesterday they planted trees at Thong Dee’s grave and last night paid respects on their final night with us.

A week that will be etched in our hearts forever.

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A Sanctuary For Elephants and A Small Animal Rescue

A safe natural home for rescued and retired elephants. NO RIDES, NO TRICKS - Just Elephants Being Elephants.

BEES was established to provide a place of rest/care under contract with the hopes of permanent retirement and to rescue and provide a forever home to elephants and animals in need.

Thailand has over 4000 Captive Elephants, many of which are working as entertainers and trekking elephants being ridden and exploited because their mahouts and owners rely on the income.

Help us lead by example, through education and providing alternative solutions that meet the needs of the elephants and the people that work with them. Giving the elephants a better life and ensuring the people that rely on the elephants for income can still provide for their families needs.