Thai Tourist Industry 'Driving' Elephant Smuggling - Channel NewsAsia

Please do not visit elephant parks in Thailand that offer elephant shows, elephant rides, photography sessions with baby elephants and the like. Read this article to find out why. Please share- many people are unaware of the hidden cruelty behind such tourist “attractions”.



Smuggling the world’s largest land animal across an international border sounds like a mammoth undertaking, but activists say that does not stop traffickers supplying Asian elephants to Thai tourist attractions.

Source: http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/featurenews/view/1257456/1/.html

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