This is a blog I created in order to bring attention to the horrors of elephant abuse, and to hopefully inform people of the mistreatment of these beautiful animals that is still going on today.
Circuses and tourist attractions are two of the biggest offenders of elephant abuse. DO NOT CONTRIBUTE MONEY TO ANY OF THESE ATTRACTIONS; YOU WILL ONLY DONATE TO THE ABUSE OF THE ELEPHANTS. If you have a passion for elephants and would like to be near them, think about volunteering at a rehabilitation site as an alternative to paying for an elephant ride.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
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Giants in Scale - Amboseli, Kenyaby Hamad Darwish
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450 elephants were recently killed for their ivory tusks. Some of their ivory ended up as trinkets in Egypt.
Full story: “Poachers Kill Hundreds of Elephants in Cameroon National Park“@ENS
My Mind Is Elsewhere: dottore-delalala: URGENT PLEA FOR RESCUED THAI WILDLIFE“I am...
URGENT PLEA FOR RESCUED THAI WILDLIFE
“I am seriously concerned for the welfare of both animals and staff, currently being intimidated by officials at the Wildlife Friends Foundation in Thailand.
Both Wildlife Friends Foundation Thailand (WFFT) and Elephant Nature Park…
Please sign the petition! This wildlife sanctuary also houses elephants and other wild animals in Thailand and the DNP are taking them away forcefully. They are less than 3,000 signatures away from their goal. Please help!
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Bullhooks used on circus elephants in Atlanta despite county ban
Fulton County banned bullhooks in June, but a superior court judge overruled the ban for the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Bullhooks are tools with long handles and a sharp hook at one end that allows trainers to apply varying degrees of pressure to sensitive spots on an elephant’s body. Circuses say the tools are necessary for the safe handling of elephants, but critics say bullhooks are harmful to the animals.
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So, there’s this girl I know who claims to adore elephants…
…which may be true, except she refuses to believe that riding them is bad. I explained to her the abuse they endure in order to be trained and how they work practically as slaves in the tourist world until they literally can’t move anymore, and her response was, “Oh, well I still really want to ride one :/”
It just saddens me that she heard all of those horrible facts and still thinks it would be her “dream” to ride one. She also wishes to work with them once she is out in the real world, which is good, yet she still believes that riding them is okay and whatnot. I don’t know, I just keep seeing her rave on and on about how much she loves them when she can’t even respect them as wild animals. /rant
