Facts from the ACEWG, a group of regional elephant specialists, veterinarians, researchers, and conservationists. In these ethical elephant riding facts below, you will understand how the ACEWG recognizes the urgency to address the current situation of elephants in tourism in South East Asia proactively and with sound scientific knowledge, to create more awareness about both…
In just a few years, elephant rides have gone from major attraction touted in all guides to a barbaric practice where pachyderms would be enduring the worst tortures. Acts relayed on social networks by a video that shocked the opinion, to the point of encouraging some tour operators to remove them from their circuits and…
“The dacco, hook, ankus or bull hook is the traditional tool of a mahout. It is indispensable to the mahout who must always have it with him when he is with an elephant. This tool is not there to make the animal suffer, but to guide, stop or move it, it extends the arm of…
After killing his owner last year, a 32-year-old bull elephant has trekked through the forest to a new home in Ratanakkiri province, with hopes of beginning a new life by Phan Soumy | January 20, 2017 Bak Mai eats banana leaves after arriving in Ratanakkiri in December. (Airavata Elephant Foundation) After fleeing captivity, trampling his…
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