Underfed and chained up for endless hours, many elephants working in Thailand’s tourism sector may starve, be sold to zoos or be shifted into the illegal logging trade, campaigners warn, as the coronavirus decimates visitor numbers.
“My boss is doing what he can but we have no money,” Kosin, a mahout — or elephant handler — says of the Chiang Mai camp where his elephant Ekkasit is living on a restricted diet. This handout photo from the Thai Elephant Alliance Association taken on March 29, 2020 and released on March 30, 2020 shows elephants foraging for food near the Patara Elephant Farm near Chiang Mai, where many camps have been shuttered by the government due to fears of the novel coronavirus spreading. Picture: Handout / THAI ELEPHANT ALLIANCE ASSOCIATION / AFP
It is yet another twist in the saga of the exploitation of elephants, which animal rights campaigners have long been fighting to protect from the abusive tourism industry. By March, the travel restrictions into Thailand — which has 1,388 confirmed cases of the virus — had extended to Western countries.
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