Phuket Elephant Nature Reserve - Bow Rescue

Meet Bow
Rescued 21 July 2021
Bow was born in 1981, she is a beautiful female elephant and the second elephant that we rescued from the same riding camp as Lotus. During the Covid pandemic, Bow was chained to a tree on a hillside for long periods unable to walk and in desperate need of rescue.
Bow was underweight when we rescued her, however, once safely at our sanctuary, we implemented a nutritious diet with natural vegetation including nutrient-rich grasses, bananas, and vitamin rice balls, and she’s now a healthy weight of 3,500kg.
Bow is a quieter elephant compared to Lotus and Thonglor. She walks slowly, has a calm but confident personality, she is intelligent, serene, and definitely depicts a ‘gentle giant’. Bow, like all our elephants, loves covering herself from trunk to tail in lovely thick mud. She also loves to head into the forest and devour palm leaves and juicy banana trees, often only see her bottom in the thick foliage!
Our elephants eat up to 180kg of food daily which is a lot of food! By sponsoring Bow, you will be directly helping us to buy a variety of grasses, a selection of her favourite fruit including bananas, pumpkins, pineapple, watermelon, rice ball supplement mix, and nutritional pellets which will keep her happy, healthy and strong.
Bow particularly loves to pull down and eat juicy banana trees so your kind support for Bow’s food supply will also help us plant banana trees around our reserve to ensure we have enough trees for Bow to eat!
We love Bow, she is such a beautiful elephant with a peaceful presence. To see Bow, Lotus and Thonglor live their best lives, shows the importance of rescuing elephants and giving them a peaceful life that elephants truly deserve.