Thailand has around 4,000 elephants in captivity. They are forced to work at tourist attractions, at benighted cultural ceremonies or owned privately for hire or in the logging industry.

Thailand is home to around 4,000 captive elephants, many of which are forced to work at tourist attractions, cultural ceremonies, or in the logging industry. Despite repeated calls from animal rights ...

Elephants, Thailand’s national animal, have seen their wild population decline in recent decades due to threats from tourism, logging, poaching and human encroachment on elephant habitats.

A Thai elephant gifted to Sri Lanka ... Animal welfare groups said the elephant had been forced to work with a logging crew and that its wounds, some allegedly inflicted by its handler, had ...