Zoo
Elephant Nature Park
🇹🇭 Thailand
🦒 Zoo or wildlife park, Thailand 6 spp. present
Elephant Nature Park is a sanctuary and rescue centre for elephants in Mae Taeng District, Chiang Mai province, northern Thailand, approximately 60 kilometres (37 mi) from Chiang Mai city, co-founded by Sangduen "Lek" Chailert. In 2013, Erawan Elephant Retirement Park opened in western Thailand as an offshoot. By 2016, there were branch parks in Surin and in Cambodia, and there were plans to open a fifth park in Phuket. By then, the work was coordinated by the Save Elephant Foundation. Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
19.214° N 98.858° E
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Essentials
Entrance
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Tourism
High
Species present
6
speciesOpened
2003
Size
Large
Visit
Getting there
What visitors say
🦒 Animals in captivity
EN
Sun Parakeet
Aratinga solstitialis
EN
African Spurred Tortoise
Centrochelys sulcata
Blue Mahseer Barb
Neolissochilus stracheyi
Before you go
Where is Elephant Nature Park?
Thailand
Elephant Nature Park is a zoo or wildlife park in Thailand. Its coordinates are 19.214° N, 98.858° E. The nearest national park in our atlas is Doi Inthanon National Park, about 88 km away.
What animals can you see at Elephant Nature Park?
6 species
Citizen-science photos record 6 species at Elephant Nature Park, including Wild Boar, Red Junglefowl, Asian Elephant, Sun Parakeet and African Spurred Tortoise. Those with a page of their own in our atlas show the odds of seeing them in the wild.
Where can you see the animals of Elephant Nature Park in the wild?
Wild Boar: Kaziranga National Park
Some of the animals photographed at Elephant Nature Park also live in the parks and cities we cover: Wild Boar (about 80% of wildlife watchers report it on a given day in Kaziranga National Park), Red Junglefowl (about 70% of wildlife watchers report it on a given day in Kaziranga National Park) and Asian Elephant (about 90% of wildlife watchers report it on a given day in Udawalawe National Park).
When did Elephant Nature Park open and how big is it?
Opened 2003, 30 ha
Elephant Nature Park, a zoo or wildlife park in Thailand, opened in 2003 and covers about 30 ha, according to Wikidata and OpenStreetMap. Today 6 species are photographed there.
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Sources: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) · Wikidata (CC0) · iNaturalist observers · Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) · the centre's official website