This month, the Dak Lak Provincial People's Committee held a signing ceremony for cooperation on elephant-friendly tourism models between the locality and Animals Asia Foundation. The locality will not organize elephant riding tours, elephant competitions, elephant parades for hours on asphalt or concrete roads; or use elephants to recreate scenes of hunting and taming elephants. Animals Asia Foundation is responsible for mobilizing resources to provide technical and financial support to bring welfare to elephants and households who make a living from elephant riding tourism.
Currently, the local elephant population is only about 140 individuals, a 90% decrease compared to 1980. Faced with this reality, Animals Asia will support the Elephant Conservation Center with 231,000 USD to carry out elephant conservation work in the province from 2022 to 2026. At the same time, "Dak Lak commits to supporting the proposals of Animals Asia, thereby aiming to build and deploy an elephant-friendly ecotourism model" - Mr. Y Giang Gry Nie Knong, Vice Chairman of Dak Lak Provincial People's Committee said.
