Hello Everyone,
I just want to request my fellow travelers NOT to buy any ivory products. When I traveled around China I saw numerous such shops; a recent Nat Geo investigation revealed 90% of ivory used in China is coming from slaughtered African elephants and then smuggled into the country. Please don't be a part of this Blood Ivory trade. And please don't support the elephant back trek safaris either. Those unfortunate animals are captured, separated from the herd, tortured until they have no choice but to 'work' carrying tourists on their back all day.
Thank You!
Abhi
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What do you do with a baby elephant whose wandering mother was killed by a truck or train? I tell you what Thais do - the baby elephant is adopted and brought up in an elephant camp. Or, would you rather the baby elephant also die in traffic? Baby elephants are also born to captive elephants and raised along with the parents. Not too easy for elephants to safely roam around Thailand like it was 100 years ago!
Ivory comes from dead elephants.
With th end of logging (or legal logging anyway) there was a surplus of "domesticated" elephants in Thailand and little governmet money to deal with this - so it has been left to individuals to mop up th mess.
some have tried really hard to help these animals, others have just seen an opportunity for exploitation.
Sadly many of the elephant camps in Thai are simply circuses under a different name and do nothing more than exploit their charges. - check thoroughly before handing over your money.
Every elephant you see on the street is technically illegal - they are not looked after by real "mahouts" the people with them rent the animals and then see how much money they can make of a night by traipsing them round towns.
Elephants have been killed very recently in Thai national parks....for ivory.
As for baby elephants - these are either the result of unnecessary breeding of domestic animals or increasingly through the importation - illegal of course - of animals from Burma.
If you really want to be sickened google how baby elephants are "broken" for domestic use.
Buying ivory just is another reason for others to exploit elephants.