Freedom is Coming! New Life Elephant Sanctuary
For many captive elephants in Sri Lanka, lifelong pain, suffering, and deprivation are all they have ever known. They deserve better.
New Life Elephant Sanctuary© (NLES) is a groundbreaking elephant welfare initiative--the first sanctuary in Sri Lanka for captive elephants. http://www.slwcs.org/elephant-sanctuary
NLES will provide high quality veterinary care and offer retirement and respite sanctuary to Sri Lanka’s working elephants (young and old) who have spent their lives shackled in chains, abused and exploited in Sri Lanka’s rapidly growing tourism industry.
In many ways, this is the definitive moment to establish a new model and new standards for the care and management of captive elephants in Sri Lanka’s rapidly growing, post-civil war economy. New Life Elephant Sanctuary will provide an alternative to elephant-back riding, parades, circus performances and other spectacles that are inherently harmful to elephants and their keepers.
New Life Elephant Sanctuary will help to bring about a new human-elephant ethic, integrating captive elephant welfare and wild elephant conservation and education.
We invite you to join us in creating the New Life Elephant Sanctuary! http://www.slwcs.org/elephant-sanctuary
We need your generous support today to undertake essential phase one, pre-development work in Sri Lanka, which will ensure the future success of NLES. Your donation will enable us to:
*Secure land for NLES (note: we are currenty negotiating the terms of acquisition for a large parcel of beautiful land in the North Western Province of Sri Lanka)
*Provide free elephant wellness checks and basic veterinary care services (wound, abscess and injury care, pedicures/foot care, etc.) through "Project eleVETS" (http://www.slwcs.org/project-elevets)
*Prepare detailed NLES construction plans
*Identify prospective NLES elephant residents and secure agreements with owners
DONATE NOW to provide a BETTER LIFE, A NEW LIFE for Captive Elephants of Sri Lanka: http://www.slwcs.org/elephant-sanctuary
Yes, freedom IS coming with the help of kind people from all around the globe. Join us today! Thank you.
***About this Video***
A "Do Good Films" Production
Video filmed in Sri Lanka and produced and edited by Lacy Wittman
Story written by Hollis Burbank-Hammarlund
Additional footage provided by Kylie Butler
Additional photos provided by Ravi Corea and Elemotion
Audio mix by Jordan Moser
Music Provided by:
-Wellington Lora
-"Pianos and Whale Call" & "Sun to Sun"
-Publisher: The Cueniverse
This video is the property of the Sri Lanka Wildlife Conservation Society.