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Elephants' migration to village brings new stress
AFP, Published on 11/06/2020
» MAE CHAEM, Chiang Mai: A thousand elephants threatened by starvation have journeyed through the hills of northern Thailand, making a slow migration home from tourist sites forced shut by the pandemic.
Hungry and in chains, Thailand's tourist elephants face crisis
AFP, Published on 31/03/2020
» Underfed and chained up for endless hours, campaigners warn many elephants working in Thailand's tourism sector may starve, be sold to zoos or shifted into the illegal logging trade as the coronavirus decimates visitor numbers.
Thai elephants 'broken' for lucrative animal tourism
AFP, Published on 23/12/2019
» SURIN: Separated from their mothers, jabbed with metal hooks, and sometimes deprived of food -- many Thai elephants are tamed by force before being sold to lucrative tourism sites increasingly advertised as 'sanctuaries' to cruelty-conscious travellers.