BEES – Burm and Emily’s Elephant Sanctuary is a safe, natural home for elephants to just BE elephants. A place for elephants to be rescued and retire too OR at times we open our doors to elephants that need rest/care with the hopes of being able to permanently live out their days in at the sanctuary in a natural environment free from exploitation and abuse. Allowing elephants the ability to BE elephants, to naturally forage, dust bath, roam, explore and socialize. BEES is a place where humans now work FOR them.
BEES also provides a home to many rescued cats and dogs and provides Domestic Animal Outreach within the local community, we run sterilization programs and provide care to local animals in need.
We work within the community running clean up days, education for kids days talking about many different aspects of elephant conservation, teach English once a week in the local school, have a community Christmas every year and give gifts to the village and often as part of our Visitor Program, help with irrigation, fire walling and clean ups after natural disasters in the local area.
Our Sanctuary provides 5 locals with full-time employment and many local villagers part-time employment in construction, electrical maintenance etc We support local businesses such as massage, snack shops, local handy crafts village, restaurants etc as well as buying fruit and vegetables from the local farmers to feed the elephants, often at times buying local farmers watermelons or pumpkins they aren’t able to sell – providing them with an extra income.
BEES is described by Worlds Animal Protection as a ‘Best Practice Venue’.
Visit Us
There are a number of ways that you can visit the sanctuary. All of the most up to date information can be found on the website.