ETHICAL ELEPHANT RIDING FACTS
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
ELEPHANT RIDES, WHO BENEFITS FROM THE LIES ABOUT TORTURE?
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
ABOUT THE DACCO
“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,
KHMER TIMES – THE ELEPHANT SAVIOUR
Good Times 2 – February 9th, 2018 – The ELEPHANT SAVIOUR Chenda Clais, founder of Airavata Elephant Foundation and owner of Terres Rouges Lodge in Ratanakiri province, considers herself lucky to be working with elephants. As foraging places disappear fast due to deforestation, she tells Eileen McCormick that sanctuaries seem
THE CAMBODIA DAILY – BAK MAI’S SECOND CHANCE
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)
THE CAMBODIA DAILY – KILLER ELEPHANT FINDS HOME AT FOUNDATION
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/killer-elephant-finds-home-foundation-121267/
