Millennium Elephant Foundation
The Millennium Elephant Foundation is a registered private charity enterprise situated on a 15 acres (6.1 ha) estate known as ‘Samaragiri’ in Pinnawala, which strives to provide working elephants with conscientious, humane care and proper medical support. Millennium funds its projects and enterprise by offering elephant rides (without the chair-like contraption known as a howdah, which Millennium protests as unethical), elephant bathing, elephant feeding, and working in partnership with Maximus Paper Co. to produce one-hundred percent recycled paper, seventy-five per cent of which is made out of elephant dung.
Millennium also provides on-site lodging for international volunteers, who work daily with the elephants, their mahouts and the foundation to improve the quality of care for captive elephants in Sri Lanka and the greater international community.
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