Elephant retirement home set up in Burma

Updated: 09:29, Thursday August 16, 2012

Green Hill Valley in Kalaw township in Burma are hosting an elephant retirement home.

Their health problems range from blindness, difficulty walking and recovery from heart attacks.

These elephants were taken from the Ministry of Forestry and brought to their home, with the age of the elephants raning from 41 to 52.

'Each of them, you know, have their own little problems. For example, one has a problem with eyes and another elephant also has a problem with eyes, and one has a problem with the heart. Some of them were attacked by wild elephants in the forest so they got infections, so something like inflammatory or something like, so that you know we give something like medication by the instructions of vets,' Tin Maw, one of the managing directors of the camp said.

The people that run Green Hill valley say that if they can financially accommodate more elephants through raised revenue from tourism, they will bring in more ageing pachyderms.