With the coronavirus and the blocking of travel, tour operators who usually organize elephant rides have freed the animals
They are free again and will be protected in a sanctuary because, after twenty years of captivity, a reintegration into nature was unthinkable. In a row, one after the other, in an image that makes you move. These elephants may not know this, but this is the last time they will be forced to do something against nature, which is to be tourist taxis. With the coronavirus and the blocking of travel, the tour operators that usually organize elephant rides have finally sold the pachyderms to the Save Elephant Foundation, which has been fighting for their protection for years.
“Old and young elephants go home. It will take five days to travel. Our SEF team is following them to ensure food for elephants and people. They begin to return to their homeland. This is perhaps the beginning of a significant change in the lives of many elephants working in captivity in Thailand, ”writes the Foundation on its social networks.
Traveling elephants:
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Here is their journey:
This is one of the other herd who is jobless and had to return home to MaeJeam because of COVID19 effects. This herd…
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The pandemic has had a major impact on the tourism sector. In Thailand, entrepreneurs say that without tours they cannot feed animals, especially there are more than 2 thousand elephants trained to be taxis. Goaded with hooks, frustrated, beaten, often emaciated and forced to 'work' from an early age. How can we forget the puppy who fell to the ground after being forced to tour with his mother with a rope around his neck? We have talked about their suffering many times, but now with the outbreak of the pandemic they also risked dying of hunger. Now the Save Elephant Foundation has taken them into custody and is finally moving them to a sanctuary in the Thai city of Chiang Mai. So far, one hundred elephants have made it home.
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As can be seen from these images, the animals that have lived in captivity for over 20 years are now free and happy. In total, 1476 pachyderms will be saved. As the sanctuary tells us, those who have exploited them for years were surprised that they had recognized those places where they were born. We are not surprised because every animal wants to live where he was born, surrounded by nature and far from man. Have a good trip to these beautiful social animals, for them a new life begins.
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