Elephants in Thailand ‘broken’ for lucrative animal tourism
24 December 2019 |
3:02 pm
Separated from their mothers, jabbed with metal hooks, and sometimes deprived of food -- many Thai elephants are tamed by force before being sold to lucrative tourism sites increasingly advertised as 'sanctuaries' to cruelty-conscious travellers.
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