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The orphanage was founded to care for and protect the many orphaned wild elephants found wandering in and near the forests of Sri Lanka. It was established in 1975 by the Sri Lanka Department of Wildlife Conservation (DWC).

It is currently situated in Pinnawala village, on a 25 acre (10 ha) coconut plantation adjacent to the Maha Oya River.

It was planned so as to attract local and foreign visitors, the income from which would help to maintain the orphanage.

DSCF5783 by Matthew Lougher

Elephant by toshisyung

Elephants & Mekong River (Luang Prabang, Lao) by Tobias Gebhardt

Elephants drinking in the river after we picked them up from the island where they stay overnight.

wet elephant by flowcomm

One Tusk by Neal

At Sabi Sands Private Game Reserve, Lion Sands Lodge, South Africa

Just love the way this old fellow laid his trunk over his one remaining tusk.

Elephant by Marlize Kleynhans

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Taken in the Kruger National Park in South-Africa.

Masai Mara African Elephant (Loxodonta africana) by Don Kenneth Berg

Khum Min likes to stop for snacks by Ro Hetherington

Pinnawela elephant orphanage by Bjorn Rantil

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Elephant at Chester Zoo by Laura Rogers

Asian Elephant by bentspur

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I think this is "Billy" www.lazoo.org/animals/elephantsofasia/elephants/

Elephant feeding by flowcomm

Mother and baby elephants by Helen Sheridan

5 legged elephant by freburg

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Elephants by Jim, the Photographer

Samphran Elephant Grounds by Carlos

They either like me orare about to trample me.

Elephant by Lauren Virovatz

Elephants! by Ray

March 8, 2007 visit to Disney's Animal Kingdom Park

Elephant by Jamie Scotland

Baby Elephant by Emma Reynolds

Bull Elephant by Tanzania Parks

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Elephants Drinking by Tony Karpinski

'Elephants Drinking' oil on board"

Elephants at Pinnawala by Leonora (Ellie) Enking

Our first destination on Day One was the Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage.

The orphanage was founded to care for and protect the many orphaned wild elephants found wandering in and near the forests of Sri Lanka. It was established in 1975 by the Sri Lanka Department of Wildlife Conservation (DWC).

It is currently situated in Pinnawala village, on a 25 acre (10 ha) coconut plantation adjacent to the Maha Oya River.

It was planned so as to attract local and foreign visitors, the income from which would help to maintain the orphanage.

Elephants by Alexander Lloyd

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Elephants at Chester Zoo

Elephants by Rhoda Perkins-Boyer

Ruaha National Park Tanzania

DSC01866 by Eimantas Kragas

African Bush Elephant by Mark de Scande

The African bush elephant is the larger of the two species of African elephant. Both it and the African forest elephant have in the past been classified as a single species.

Elephants by Richard White