Trees n Trunks
By Zulhilmi, the average undergraduate who lives life with no regrets, aims to try everything in the world once, and believes in having lots of fun while helping others!
Trees n Trunks is a Youth Expedition Project (YEP) undertaken by the NUS Rotaract Club, in collaboration with The Green Volunteers, focused on helping the Thai community at large in Chiang Mai. Conservation – both environmental and animal conservation, and sustainability, are at the heart of our project.
This three week long expedition, held in December 2011, encompasses two main components: helping the Karen Hilltribe as well as working with the Elephant Nature Park.
The second aspect of our project focuses more on animal and environmental conservation, as we dedicate our time and effort to restoring the natural habitat at the Elephant Nature Park. The Elephant Nature Park is a much needed elephant rescue and rehabilitation centre, in a country where elephant abuse is widespread and common. Elephants are forced to take part in logging, or even as objects of street begging. Whilst at the ENP, we would be caring for these rescued elephants, as well as with the daily chores around the grounds. On top of that, we would be doing our part for environmental conservation by planting more trees to restore the natural habitat at the park.