Glenn Sullivan , zoo elephant head-keeper in Australia . Elephant bull Raja in Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage in Sri Lanka, with K. G. Sumanabanda, Glenn Sullivan (Blackpool zoo) and Veterinarian Lasantha Perera 2018: Sullivan hosted the first Australasian elephant workshop from the 9-12 April 2018. 17 participants from Australia and New Zealand attended. 2018: Glenn Sullivan, Brooke Bishop and Bobby-Jo Vial will be climbing Mount Kilimanjaro. Money raised from the trek will be donated to The Askari Project and Kope Lion. The trek will be held in August and Mr Sullivan, the elephant supervisor at Taronga Western Plains Zoo – said it would be his first time in Africa. Mr Sullivan, who has worked with elephants for more than 30 years, said seeing the animals in the wild was something he had wanted to do “since he was knee high to a grasshopper.