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. Balanced precariously on hind legs, two-year-old Ploy holds a ball in her trunk and flings it towards a hoop, one […]CONTINUE READING >>>
Elephants in Thailand ‘broken’ by being separated from their mothers and starved — all for lucrative animal tourism
