Jumbo Express
Jumbo Express is an outreach project that provides medical care to elephants and rural communities, with the hope of creating new dialogues and research concerning human-elephant relationships. Since 1985, the project has helped over three hundred hill tribe villages, illegal logging facilities, tourist operations, and refugee camps receive critical health services while raising the standard of living for their elephant populations.
Jumbo Express works without politics, dispensing aid to these areas while not pushing change, so as to develop broader networking opportunities for the diverse parties involved in Thailand's elephant industry. Through educating volunteers about local cultures and sending them into the field with professional staff, valuable cross-cultural exchanges occur between villager and visitor. Medicine, vaccinations, food supplies, toys, blankets, and health information are among the many services provided to communities in need.
All Jumbo Express events are documented with a written report summarizing these activities and recording information gathered in the field. As data regarding both the wild and domestic elephants at each site is collected, these reports provide crucial research from regions often inaccessible to academia. By providing medical aid to small communities while keeping an eye towards conservation, Jumbo Express ensures elephant populations and the cultures surrounding them will survive for generations to come.
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