LAREN AUCTION MARKS 10 YEARS OF ELEPHANT PARADE

Over 250 guests attended the Elephant Parade Laren auction. TV personality, Myrna Goossen, hosted the evening, opening the event with a film from Elephant Family, the parade beneficiary and Elephant Parade’s charity partner. The other auction beneficiaries were the Singer Laren museum and Papageno Huis, a local charity committed to helping children with autism.

Mike Spits, Founder of Elephant Parade, then took to the stage to talk about recent conservation experiences with elephants in Kenya and provided a background to Elephant Parade and its operations in Thailand.

The event auctioneer Junior Zegger and the notary, Mr M.F. le Coultre then began the bidding. Before each lot, many of the artists talked about the concept behind their works of art - such as Marcel Wolterinck, Gitte Spee, Marja Boot, Jean Marc des Bouvrie and Jackie Sleper.

Jackie Sleper’s elephant, “Gentle”, was sold for the highest bid of 25,000 Euros. Other lots included an exclusive trip to London, which sold for 1,800 Euros of which the full 100% goes to Elephant Family’s project to overcome human-elephant conflict through building 101 elephant corridors in India.