Dag & Maria

In May 2007 Dag traveled to India to spend a month in Rajastan studying camel medicine. By coincidence he was in Jaipur when a captive elephant gave birth — the first time this had happened in the city for a hundred years. Through veterinary contacts Dag was invited to help examine the mother elephant and her eleven-hour-old baby. It was a life-changing experience:
he returned to Canada with a new-found direction, determined to channel his passions and skills towards helping elephants. Later that year he returned to India with his wife, the award-winning author Maria Coffey, to begin research which led to the creation of Elephant Earth Initiative.