Mission of NFEF

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Last night I returned home from Thailand where I lead the Elephant Yoga Retreat at the Never Forget Elephant Foundation in the jungles of Northern Thailand. I didn’t know much about the Never Forget Elephant Foundation when I agreed to lead a retreat there. Honestly, I didn’t look into it, I didn’t spend hours on the internet reading about it, I didn’t glance through their social media. None of that. I trusted the person who told me of the work she was doing and I trusted my intuition. And, my life is forever altered because of it.

The Never Forget Elephant Foundation is committed to sustainability, living from the land, and providing for animals and humans alike because the two are interlinked.

The goals of the foundation are very simple and create a win-win-win environment:

  1. Return endangered captive elephants home to their natural jungle habitat

  2. Provide service to the local Karen Hill Tribe population to inspire sustainable solutions toward elephant and environmental health

  3. Cultivate a passionate global community of support to facilitate positive changes for captive Asian elephants throughout Thailand

    Yo, the foundation;s project director, and link between the global community and the lical Karen Hill tribe members is PASSIONATE about sustainability and respecting the earth and what she provide for us. When we were about an hour away from the village I saw an impeccably designed house made of ornately carved wood. I commented on the beauty of it and he replied “no, not beautiful. We need trees to breath.” Bamboo grows so readily out there and he believes that the people should be using bamboo resources that don’t deplete the earth and in effect, result in disaster for us such as poor air quality. sickness, disease, hunger, displacing humans and animals alike, etc).

    And he is right.

    Bamboo is the fastest growing plant ob the planet and having a stronger structure that steel is used in construction homes and furniture as well as in foods and household items such as clothes. In addition, it produces 30% more oxygen and absorbs more carbon dioxide than many plants. No wonder Yo advocates people use bamboo and keep the trees planted in the earth!

    From the earth back to the earth.

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