Meet our new Elephant Care Team! Joining us are three incredible professionals whose expertise will ensure we provide our elephants with the highest standards of care and compassion from the very beginning: Gail Laule, John Nascimento, and Graça Oliveira. Gail Laule...
A More Empathetic Approach For decades, elephants in captivity were managed through a system known as free contact. Caretakers and elephants shared the same physical space, and handlers maintained control through tools like bullhooks to establish dominance. However,...
A Gradual Shift in Policy On July 7, 2025, the last captive elephant in Argentina crossed the Brazilian border. Kenya, an African elephant who has lived for decades under managed care at Argentina’s Mendoza Ecoparque, has been successfully relocated to Elephant...
Photo credit: José Eduardo Fontes/Rewilding Portugal Grazing as Fire Prevention: New Evidence As Europe experiences record-breaking heat waves, the need for fire-smart landscape management has never been more important. In Portugal’s Greater Côa Valley, a recent...
Emergency Enclosure Now Under Construction In June, Pangea broke ground on its very first elephant enclosure — a secure, one-acre holding space designed to safely receive elephants in urgent need. With reinforced steel fencing rising 3 meters high and anchored 1.5...
