Green Hill Valley elephant sanctuary in Myanmar

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Green Hill Valley elephant sanctuary
Type	sanctuary
Size	20 hectares
Founded	2011
First elephant arrived	2011
Address	Magway village
Place	Kalaw
District	Taunggyi District
State	Southern Shan State
Country	Myanmar
Website	Website
Facebook	Facebook
Telephone	+9595145838
Related persons
Owner	2011-: Tin Maw 2011-: Htun Wynn

Zoological department

Head Veterinarian	: Sayar Ba
Elephant department
Record history
History of updates	2022-10-17xx

Latest document update	2022-10-17 08:51:55
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Description

Green Hill Valley elephant sanctuary, located at Magway village, in Kalaw, Southern Shan State, Myanmar , was founded in 2011 and the first elephant arrived in 2011.

Living elephants

At the Green Hill Valley elephant sanctuary lives 6 elephants with records in this database: (detail list)

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The location had been a major timber logging camp in the 1960s, employing more than 20 working elephants at maximum capacity.

Green Hill Valley began as a family operation, with Maw and Wynn as cofounders and Maw’s veterinarian uncle as project manager. The location, selected after careful consideration, is Magwe village, about 45 minutes by car from Kalaw in the mountains of southern Shan State. The resident elephants include two of the family’s own animals, plus five retired elephants from the Ministry of Forestry. Green Hill Valley’s 20 hectares are not a lot of land for seven elephants, so the animals have roaming rights in the adjoining Wet Pyu Ye forest reserve, giving them an additonal 60 hectares over which to stretch their legs.

Claudia Flisi, 2014

References for records about Green Hill Valley elephant sanctuary

Recommended Citation

Koehl, Dan (2025). Green Hill Valley elephant sanctuary, Elephant Encyclopedia. Available online at https://www.elephant.se/location2.php?location_id=2471. (archived at the Wayback machine)

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