Green Hill Valley elephant sanctuary in Myanmar


Green Hill Valley elephant sanctuary


Typesanctuary
Owner 2011-: Tin Maw
2011-: Htun Wynn
Size20 hectares
Founded2011
First elephant arrived2011
Address Magway village
Place Kalaw
District Taunggyi District
StateSouthern Shan State
Country Myanmar
Website Website
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Telephone+9595145838
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Veterinarians: Sayar Ba (head veterinarian)
Elephant department
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Record history
History of updates2022-10-17
Latest document update2022-10-17 08:51:55
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Description

Green Hill Valley elephant sanctuary, located at Magway village, in Kalaw, Southern Shan State, Myanmar , was founded in 2011 and the first elephant arrived in 2011.

Living elephants

At the Green Hill Valley elephant sanctuary lives 6 elephants with records in this database: (detail list)
  1. ♀ Hnin Sit Wai
  2. ♀ Htun Ma Ma
  3. ♂ Phoe Chit
  4. ♀ Shu Lay Wah
  5. ♀ Shwe Moe May
  6. ♀ Yu Moe Yin

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The location had been a major timber logging camp in the 1960s, employing more than 20 working elephants at maximum capacity.

Green Hill Valley began as a family operation, with Maw and Wynn as cofounders and Maw’s veterinarian uncle as project manager. The location, selected after careful consideration, is Magwe village, about 45 minutes by car from Kalaw in the mountains of southern Shan State. The resident elephants include two of the family’s own animals, plus five retired elephants from the Ministry of Forestry. Green Hill Valley’s 20 hectares are not a lot of land for seven elephants, so the animals have roaming rights in the adjoining Wet Pyu Ye forest reserve, giving them an additonal 60 hectares over which to stretch their legs.

Claudia Flisi, 2014

References for records about Green Hill Valley elephant sanctuary

Recommended Citation

Koehl, Dan (2024). Green Hill Valley elephant sanctuary, Elephant Encyclopedia. Available online at https://www.elephant.se/location2.php?location_id=2471. (archived at the Wayback machine)

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