—Conservation · Laos
Our Work
Laos’ only elephant hospital. A herd of 30 under our care. A rewilding programme with no precedent in this country. This is what conservation looks like when it is measured, not marketed.
Our Mission — the 7Rs
Every elephant at the ECC moves through the same arc: Rescue, Rehabilitate, Reproduce, Reherd, Rewild, Research, Respect. The 7Rs are not a slogan. They are the actual sequence of our work — from crisis to care, and for some, back to the forest.
—Results & Impact
At the Centre
2010 vs. today, in hard numbers — the herd, the people, the land. The strongest transparency asset on the site.
Elephants
The largest herd under human care in Laos. Fourteen of them arrived as rescues. Seven calves born at ECC.
Staff
Ninety-two percent Lao
Hectares
Of forest Nam Tien Provincial Protected Area. A working landscape designed for elephants.
Released to the wild
Laos’ first and only successful rewilding operation in Laos, in March 2019, Nam Pouy National Protected Area.
—Beyond the fence
The forest and the classrooms
Patrols in Nam Pouy, papers in journals, children who have met an elephant without a ride. The work that leaves the site.
Patrol days
Nam Pouy National Protected Area: 33 firearms confiscated, 51 logging operations shut, 69 arrests.
Scientific publications
An endocrinology lab most sanctuaries don’t have – and 50 veterinarians trained on site.
Rangers trained
The people who walk the 192,000-hectare protected area we help to keep standing.
Schoolchildren reached
Kids in Conservation – classrooms across Sayaboury, not a visitor-centre leaflet.
Our Reach
Laos – the main sites where the WILMED Mobile Elephant Clinic is operating, including the Nam Tien Lake, the Nam Pouy National Protected Area, and the districts of Thongmixay and Luang Prabang where most operations occur. This is the landscape in which rescue, vetcare, and rewilding actually happen.
ha Nam Pouy National Protected Area
Wild elephants