14 DAY TRIAL // Australian model Miranda Kerr has recently joined the list of public figures who are doing their best to promote conservation programs and help save elephants and other endangered species from going extinct.
Thus, it has been revealed that, not very long ago, Miranda Kerr met with the founder of Friends of the Asian Elephant, a green-oriented group operating in Thailand.
According to Ecorazzi, the folks working with or supporting this organization are in the business of lending a helping hand to elephants that would have trouble surviving on their own.
In doing so, they help make sure that the species does not become extinct sometime in the near future.
The same source tells us that, at the time she met with Soraida Salwala, the founder of Friends of the Asian Elephant, Miranda Kerr offered the conservationist a check for $100,000 (€72,125).
Information made available to the public says that the money is intended to support the organization's projects and campaigns.
In an interview with the press, Soraida Salwala explained that the non-profit organization was to use the $100,000 that the Australian model decided to willingly part with to help baby elephants.
More precisely, the Friends of the Asian Elephant Founder explained that the conservationists were to spend the money chiefly on providing care for orphaned and wounded young pachyderms.
“We have elephants like baby Naka, who is now one years old. His mother tried to kill him at birth, but we fed him for one year with goat’s milk to help him grow,” the conservationist said in a statement.
“Miss Miranda Kerr’s generous donation will be for our milk fund. In her honor, we have named the fund Miranda Kerr’s Baby Elephants Milk Fund,” Soraida Salwala went on to say.
Apart from helping injured and abandoned baby elephants get back on their feet, this non-profit organization looks after elephants that suffer gunshot wounds or are hit by cars.
The conservationists say that, for the time being, conflicts between humans and such animals are a fairly common sight in Thailand, and that logging activities are partly to blame.
The implantation of land mines in this part of the world need also be held accountable for quite a lot of incidents involving elephants.
It is estimated that, since it was funded back in 1993 until present day, Friends of the Asian Elephant has helped nurse some 4,000 young and adult elephants back to health.
Once these elephants started feeling better and showed signs of being able to look after themselves, they were released back into the wild.