NEVER ride an elephant. NEVER bathe with an elephant. NEVER watch an elephant at a show or circus. ALWAYS do your research and support ethical tourism. .
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By riding or bathing or attending elephant shows you are causing pain, distress and death to thousands of elephants. Our visit to @samuielephantsanctuary was one of the best days of my life but also one of the most heartbreaking. The work they do to rescue elephants who are abused, or close to being murdered (because they are worth more dead than alive) is unbelievable. Every penny raised at the sanctuary goes to support the 6 elephants here but also enables them to educate others across #Thailand to protect elephants rather than hurt them. The elephants here had been beaten, blinded by having their eyes pulled out, had their babies stolen and killed, starved, and had bricks and rocks thrown at their heads to try and kill them. .
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There are 4000 elephants in captivity in Thailand so it’s impossible to set them all into the wild or for this sanctuary to recuse them all but they are helping one elephant at a time and rely on the support of ethical tourism. If you ever visit #Thailand please support this or one of the 2 other sanctuaries. Elephants need a lot of food so they need all the support they can get.
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