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going to have some climate impacts maternal greater than we see over me. that's really frightening. plays. why are people more concerned. little yellow box stores may 31st on t.w. . as an attraction even if you never wanted it this way. the 30 year old male elephant lives in chiang mai in northern province of thailand. it's. here tourists can ride elephants and admire their acrobatics yet many animal.

welfare organizations are convinced that young elephants in captivity are subjected to a cruel procedure to make them tame. the management of the elephant camp would rather not talk about whether ning and his fellow elephants have been tortured in this way . it's early in the morning just after 7 o'clock is restless maybe the bull elephant is waiting for his working day to finally begin but maybe he just wants to break free of the chain which keeps him tethered to his sleeping area every night. for syrup at chemistry the vet at the camp there is no cause for concern either way. i think he have a problem with hoss i think in the last 2 shots back and all i have been

asked and i hear you walt are and made their share and it's not. fairly and then they share and it was really just to shock them no longer. mr sawyer gets ready for his working day at around half past 6 every morning too he lives in this house with his family barely 50 meters away from an area. for over 10 years he's been ings my hoot as the thai people call the handlers of the working elephants. as i'm a hoot mr sawyer is responsible for feeding and taking care of me but his chief role is akin to that of a tamer even if he prefers to see himself as a partner. for me what inning is like a member of the family. all you've got our relationship is based on love and mutual respect. he's been living with me now for over 10 years. just like you would like

with family or a good friend. day begins with a decent breakfast an adult elephant eats about $200.00 kilos of food per day preferably grass and leaves. his eating mr sawyer takes care of business from the previous night. he then finally frees the elephant from his twisted shackles but even during the day it's a life in chains for all of the 79 elephants in the camp ning is obviously used to the routine. it. does not like being rushed in the early morning i've. got. over. before the bull hook has to be used ning decides to get moving after all his daily shower awaits he can always eat his breakfast on the way. it's almost an hour until

the 1st tourists will be sitting on the back before they come he has to go through the elephant wash as he does every morning. for a little. only a few commands are required for his morning grooming and mr sawyer are a close knit team. so. after his early scrub the elephant has saddled up a daily feat of strength for mr sawyer for. the riding seat alone weighs around 40 kilos mr sawyer says that ning scarcely feels the weight after all as an adult elephant ning weighs about $3.00 tons himself. and mr sawyer making their way to the start of the ride the 1st guests are eagerly waiting as is mostly the case. the visitors are nearly all chinese. herbal

most western tour operators have long since removed traditional plants like this one from their catalogs as many animal welfare arrests in europe or the usa consider writing operating the elephants as cruelty to animals. the camps marketing officer sees no fault with a traditional concept. like. we do pro wine their culture way that we all fly about thai people and often walk how do they how do we live with the people read their minds 3 of the people from the outside how to ride on the elephant how the people use their leverage in the past in the past me read go on the often be yourself and have presentations us until the forestation was banned in 1989 elephants in thailand were also used in forestry. now they only stack heavy logs to entertain 2 arrests.

around $5000.00 elephants in total live in thailand today with around $3000.00 of them in captivity. nina earthman brassicas a danish biologist she advises elephant camps on how to combine 2 or isn't better with animal welfare she thinks that in a perfect world elephants would be free not held in captivity but the reality is a different one in thailand now it's about maintaining certain basic standards at least so. so good welfare can easily be done in a riding camp if you provide the elephant with shade enough good enough water enough rest and and otherwise free from discomfort also. needing his name means number one in the thai language is the star among the elephants in the camp it has the longest tusks of all the elephants. the camp has been his home for over 20 years. prior to that he lived in a mountain village on the border to me in march as

a working. woman has never known a life in the wild and he knows what the guests expect of him. a young couple from china gets to riding 1st the elephant doesn't seem to mind who sits on his back as long as he has the right snacks for the journey. the shortest. i'd last almost 30 minutes and costs around 20 euros longer rides are also possible . ning knows the route by heart in a normal day he gives 5 rides the visitors are usually thrilled. there you go $18.00 was already wobbly at the beginning but then it's a pretty good feeling on. what. some guests are bothered by the the most important tool of every man. i don't like because he.

is keeping to the stick i don't like. i like all that that's. the can't manager tells us that in some situations it takes more than the soft touch to control an elephant no one and no one. cares i think it's too dangerous because elephants are the bricks and the mouth's. when you wear. some days they have lists even the dog yet you have something like that but often they are quite much more bigger than golf so we've been in a storm in need to be strong. lunch time in the camp time for ning to do what he always does for mr sawyer it's his 1st meal since breakfast but he doesn't need 200 kilos of food pre-date to keep up his strength. mr so explains how important it is that the elephants have enough food also to control the animals.

while. winning is obstinate and doesn't react to my commands then i give him something to eat. if he's still in a bad mood i have to use my bull hook just a little pack is usually enough to calm him down love all we have we have a little hay called the union lake on. new north and brask tells us that a lack of transparency constantly impedes her work. in particular the camp management refuses to talk to her about the training of young elephants. historically they have used. a very brutal way of training the young elephants to make them listen to them hooks. and actually due to this very brutal training method that is now what is deterring many tourists from going into the much additional camps because it is a firm belief that all elephants and to do show is to do any sort of entertainment for guests and tourist. can only do so because they have been through

a brutal training let alone. busy are available on the internet showing the cruelty and valving breaking in the elephants as it is called it is not known exactly where and when these films were. not the brutal procedure can take up to a month the animal is only freed once it stops fighting back. this method was practiced for centuries in the entire region today there are laws against cruelty to animals in thailand but if no one complains it seems not to be an issue. is unclear to what extent the brutal training methods are still practiced today. that at the camp remains vague when asked about the assured. in our town we tried to use the combination of. the them and make it he was meant.

they don't know about the naked man the father naked he had many just a really as some ratio to them and when i found doing the right thing he removed. a lot of the hooded this being. he had hinted that. in fact is not that. a nice long drink at the end of the day after a good 7 hours with the writing seat on his back working day is over so just mr sawyer has to work hard. one of the things i noticed about this is in the end of this kind of very close and almost so respectful relationship it has with its hands less and i think it's

all so it's all in there like the management of that animal is based on on a mutual respect and not so much. who's who who's got a weapon or not. named mr sawyer on the way back to the sleeping area. suddenly the elephant stops in his tracks he needs to have a scratch these concrete pillars are just the thing to relieve his it. is one of the few moments when one can simply do as he likes with no drills or commands. and then it's shackle time again. will spend the next 14 hours tethered to the spot. later on mr sawyer will bring him fresh food. and tomorrow the whole thing will start again.

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