On December !st 2015 BLES took in 4 bulls who were in desperate need of sanctuary .
They were gaunt, starving and in bad health.
We made an agreement with each owner that we would lease each elephant because we could not raise the money to buy all 4 bulls and they were in urgent need of help.
All 4 bulls have thrived and are a special part of the BLES Family.
Last week,NWON, who is 60 and blind in one eye, was sold to a trekking camp in Surin.
BLES had had no notice of the owner's intention - she turned up with a truck and took him away.
We do not know why she did not tell us she needed to sell him, or,why she did not ask us to buy him - maybe she thought we could not afford to.
BLES does not usually lease elephants - we do not believe that is a solution.
We want to give each of our rescues a very secure and safe future.
This was an exceptional decision made because we are here to look after the elephants of Thailand and give them all a chance for a better life.
We could not turn them away, and we would not turn them away.
Nwon is completely unrecognisable from the bony, aggressive elephant we rescued in december.
He loves to spend his time with 2 of our most beautiful ladies - Pang Noi and Pang Suai.
He has never had a seat on his back - he was a logging elephant
We want to try to get him back and we are making contact with his new owners to begin discussions.
I have based the amount on how much we know the new owners paid for him, assuming they will ask for ( hopefully) just a bit more and will need to include their expenses and then our transport costs plus currency and bank charges.
We do not know that we WILL be able to buy him back, but we have to try.
If it turns out that we cannot buy him back we are proposing to hold the funds collected as a rescue fund for another elephant in the future.
Please help BLES to Bring Nwon Back - BNB
Thank you