It was a lovely evening with many good friends celebrating the premier of Panom. I was delighted to see so many there. You can go to http://www.city-now.com/ and peruse a gallery of photos of the evening. [...]
The most recent survey in Thailand indicates that unless their is a serious effort to help save the few remaining elephants in the country (approximately 3000 wild elephants and 2000 captive) they could become extinct in [...]
"J'espère que tout va bien. Je vous annonce que vous pouvez voir la bande annonce du film "l'éléphant Panom" (Panom est le nom de l'éléphant que Galen Garwood a rencontré lors de son séjour en Thailande, [...]
MORE NOTES ON THE ELEPHANT Recently I’ve been in contact with Alyne Fortgang in Seattle, Washington, USA. She is cofounder of a group of citizens diligently trying to convince the city’s zoo, WoodLand Park, to free [...]
I promised I'd explain the word Panom and so I shall. In Thailand, the elephant and Buddha are inseparably linked in history and the evolution of that mythic relationship stems further back into ancient Hinduism; The [...]
FINALLY! A day I’ve been waiting for. I’ve completed the elephant film that brought me to Northern Thailand ten years ago. Why so long? The answer: the journey has been fraught with sharp, thorny path empediments—navigating [...]
DO ELEPHANTS PAINT? By Galen Garwood Elephants began their evolutionary history about the same time as humans. Both species probably began as herbivores but somewhere far back in that implacable flight in which we separated ourselves [...]
