Cambodian Organisation on conserving and protecting Elephants
Kulen Elephant Forest
Founded
2018
Founder
David Piot
Type
Organisation
Focus
Asian elephant conservation
Location
Siem Reap, Cambodia
Bos Thom Community Forest, Prasat Bakong district, Cambodia
Method
Species conservation, protection of forest, Environmental Education, Ecotourism
Owner
David Piot
Key people
Oan Kiry, general director.
Dan Koehl, elephant welfare director and advisory expert.[1]
Award(s)
silver-level certification from Asian Captive Elephant Standards (ACES)
Website
https://www.kulenforest.asia
Elephant retirement park owner and co-founder David Piot and French photographer Philippe Alexandre Chevallier with the Kulen elephants browsing in the Kulen forest
Kulen Elephant Forest is a conservation organization founded in 2018 by David Piot, [2] The reserve, a 400-hectare elephant retirement park, was opened in December 2019, protecting the captive Asian elephants in Siem Reap Province in Cambodia, as well as protecting up to 1100 acres of protected forest inhabited by the former elephants of Angkor UNESCO World Heritage site.[3][4]
KulenElephantForest is a conservation organization founded in 2018 by David Piot, The reserve, a 400-hectare elephant retirement park, was opened in...
Village Hotel, Angkor Village Apsara Theatre and the elephant retirement park KulenElephantForest. "Chiefs of State and Cabinet members of foreign governments...
management of elephants and mahouts as elephant trainer, manager, and welfare director at KulenElephantForest. The website Elephant Encyclopedia has...
Village Hotel, Angkor Village Apsara Theatre and the elephant retirement park KulenElephantForest. The road Rue Tep Vattho, along Siem Reap River and...
at Keo Seima Wildlife Sanctuary and Elephant Valley Project (EVP) in Mondulkiri province, and KulenElephantForest (KEF) in Siem Reap province, the impacts...
wild. About 6% of the area is protected with the largest areas including Kulen Promtep Wildlife Sanctuary, Lomphat Wildlife Sanctuary and Phnom Prich in...
hardwood forest, dominated by Dipterocarpaceae species, occurring above metamorphic sandstone bedrock, at 25-30m elevation. In Phnom Kulen National Park...
communally, then they continue on their way". The Pear, at least those of the Kulen massif — because the author primarily described the Angkor region — would...
The ruins of Angkor are located amid forests and farmland north of the Great Lake (Tonlé Sap) and south of the Kulen Hills, near modern-day Siem Reap city...
situated between the southern slopes of the Dangrek mountains, the Kulen mountains (Phnom Kulen) in the south-west, and the Tbeng mountain (Phnom Tbeng, near...
is an Angkorian-era archaeological site on the southwest slopes of the Kulen Hills to the northeast of Angkor in Banteay Srei District, Siem Reap Province...
ancient Hinduism. Mingled with these images are actual known animals, like elephants, snakes, fish, and monkeys, in addition to dragon-like creatures that...
Indra, who was associated with that direction, mounted on his three-headed elephant Airavata. The 67 m causeway with the remains of corridors on either side...
is named for a particular temple regarded as paradigmatic for the style. Kulen style (825–875): continuation of pre-Angkorean style but it was a period...
ceremony to claim political legitimacy by founder Jayavarman II at Mount Kulen (Mount Mahendra) in 802 CE. A succession of powerful sovereigns, continuing...
Chinese soldiers), with musicians, horsemen, and officers mounted on elephants, followed by wagons of provisions; still in the eastern gallery, on the...
would have been the site of a substantial town, but that is now largely forested. There are entrance gopuras at each of the cardinal points, although access...
along with King Władysław sending game to Queen Zofia from Niepołomice Forest, the most popular hunting ground for the Polish royalty beginning in the...
In Cambodia, a single fishing cat was photographed by a camera trap in Kulen Promtep Wildlife Sanctuary in March 2003. In 2008, a fishing cat kitten...
Dharmasala) similar to Ta Prohm's. The remainder of the fourth enclosure, now forested, was originally occupied by the city; as this was built of perishable materials...
Grandfather Chicken". It lies not far from two related temples in a densely forested area where access is difficult on one of the passes through the Dongrak...
offering of rice-milk to the Buddha-to-be, and the subjugation of the elephant Nalagiri. The sandstone sanctuary stands on a three-tiered basement, 6 m...
Cambodia in 1978 and the overthrow of the Khmer Rouge government, the forested area around the temple became the site of a large camp of Cambodian refugees...