Thailand's Elephant issue

Thailand's Elephant issues

1.Destroying the wild area
destroying the wild area for agriculture, cutting the trees, burning forest. Building the barrage and the way it destroyed housing and food animals. It makes the conflict between human and elephant.

2.Kill the wild elephant

Catching the baby elephant by human who lived in the border of Thailand and Myanmar for trading, it not difficult to catch and transport. For catching the baby elephant have to kill the mother because they love the baby so much and they will close always. The baby elephant not yet weaned will be weakness and die.

3.The problems from management
Lack institution for manage and guarding, inappropriate management of institution, unprofitable of management and lack of bursary.


4.Farming inappropriate
The elephant work hard, animal cruelty. They don't relax and they work hard for too long .When  they have lesion inflicted, farmer must to use Amphetamine for treat them but using for too long, the elephant be addicted to drugs and die.

In addition, have any problems of the elephant in Thailand such as accident from the elephant troupe, all of them not taken care and solve the problems well. It makes decreasing of the elephant everyday more.

A sanctuary for the abused elephants of Thailand

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