Elephants used to work for humans. They are supposed to live in groups, but even parents and children are separated and forced to work until they can no longer move.
54 elephants recently arrived on the group’s vast grounds. Although they are doing well now, these elephants lived in terrible conditions until very recently.
They have been tied up and forced to work at Thailand’s Chokchai Elephant Camp, where they put on shows to the delight of hundreds of people.
Meanwhile, the new coronavirus pandemic began.
The shutdown due to the infectious disease that threatens the world has also affected the elephant in the box office in the form of show cancellations.
If the audience does not come, the elephants will have free time, but their income will decrease. Naturally, if income decreases, feed costs will also decrease. But it takes money to maintain business. Many elephants were sold for this purpose.
In addition, even the elephants and their children were managed separately. Even babies who were not yet weaned and still needed milk were separated from their mothers prematurely and kept in dire conditions, such as being chained.
Sangduen “Lek” Chailert, the founder of this organization and one of Thailand’s leading conservationists, says:
No matter how hungry or how painful the elephants were, they couldn’t even run away and had no choice but to stay where they were. However, they were finally able to live a free life in the sanctuary.
Elephants and their children, freed from their daily slave labor, are now able to cuddle and bathe in the water just like regular elephants.
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