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THAILAND - ANIMAL - VOLUNTEERING |
 Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2009 8:47 pm |
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| i plan on spending some time in thailand and i would love to do some volunteering with some animals maybe some turtles or elephants, i am also going across to vietnam, cambodia and laos so i wouldnt even mind if the volunteering was there.
anybody know of any projects i might find of interest? anyone done this before? storys? etc thank you |
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| Back to top | Location: England | 124 Posts |
| Posted: Sat Jul 18, 2009 1:55 pm |
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I hear there might be a good elephant camp in Laos 
What ever you do dont bother with a company called  Starfish if your intrested in working closely with elephants.
I'm with them right now and for £800 you get to spend 4 weeks in Surin North East Thailand (food and return transfer back to BKK Not included) and in those 27 or so days you get to spend all of 4 days with the elephants! Even that experience is only just riding around on them like Ponies! Not overly happy bunny! 
On the flip side they seem to to a good community development and teaching program. but I realy love animals more than people so this was a real let down for me! Company doesnt seem to think I should have a problem with this situation, not what I expect from an English run company based in Thailand! On a more posative note theres a place in Chaing Mai called Tiger Kingdom where you get to work (realy work with) TIGERS! I contacted them while I was in Chaing Mai (North Thailand) and asked if I could do some Volunteering and hay presto after a bit of an interview they agreed. 
You have to work with customers a lot to, but you get to spend all day every day with the Tigers. Touching, feeding, training, learing about tigers in captivaty. I loved this place. The people are really lovely, they even threw me a party when I left! Guess what....heres the second best thing (the first being the fact that you get to be with the tigers!!)....it was FREE!!!!! Just send an email to Pi Pim at joliepim@gmail.com, tell her that Jenny Wickett mentioned doing Volunteering there and they should get back to you after a little while. Good luck |
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| Back to top | Location: England | 119 Posts |
| Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 2:17 am |
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| Try to find the information that the www.realexperiencethailand.com. Here they have a volunteering program working to help animals and the environment. And a project to encourage local community participation in conservation in cooperation with volunteers. | |
| Back to top | Location: Thailand | 9 Posts |
| Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2009 11:50 pm |
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| Back to top | Location: England | 30 Posts |
| Posted: Mon Jun 7, 2010 2:12 pm |
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| Hi,
I'm going to book a placement with POD to work with animals in Thailand early next year. They also have a great value elephant programme and i've seen really good reviews for them.
Their website is: www.thepodsite.co.uk Hope that helps  |
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| Back to top | Location: Scotland | 6 Posts |
| Posted: Mon Jun 7, 2010 5:24 pm |
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| I recommend you take a peek at http://www.volunteerworkthailand.org
On the Volunteer Thailand page there are various projects with animals - some of them free!! |
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| Back to top | Location: England | 21 Posts |
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