it is more than 100 miles away in the mountains of chiang mai province.i province. it will be a difficult journey. we expected to take three days and two nights, but we have a young elephant and an old one. the baby elephant is four months old. if they are tired, they can rest. elephants are synonymous with tourism in thailand. but it is an industry accused of cruelty. the 3000 elephants that rely on tourism are at risk of starvation. for some elephants, the pandemic has meant more suffering. translation: if it doesn't get better in three months, i will contact people i know along the myanmar border. i will take my elephant to work in the logging business there. after two days of travel, the convoy is chased out of a village. locals think beekeepers may have coronavirus. tired, comedy tea m sto ps may have coronavirus. tired, comedy team stops at a river to rest. the elephants got very thirsty, and the little one had no energy to walk. their journey little one had no energy to walk. theirjourney home has been funded bya theirjourney home has been funded b

it's been a long slow journey for this elephant and his handler with tourists and his like chiang mai now closed because of coronavirus they have no choice but to return home to the hills of northern thailand a wonderful site for these children and an opportunity for the elephants to enjoy then you found freedom. but these animals need food around 300 kilos of plants a day much of the vegetation around here has been cleared for crops and the handlers have no money to buy feed. but. we need help to take care of the animals it's expensive obviously. there's also concern from local villages that the sudden influx of hundreds of elephants. and that swearing conservationists. that some of the elephant make it. into the properties. would probably stop what we call the sea human plate. before the coronavirus pandemic hit thailand was a popular destination for animal tourism but it was often unregulated and there have been numerous reports of elephant cruelty despite this the handlers known as mahmoud's maintain that tourism is my tool for their survival. i mean that until the last we have to