Elephants have it rough. Between being poached for tusks, and captured to be made into working elephants, these beautiful giants need some incredible people who will stick up for them.
One of those individuals is Lek Chailert, founder of Elephant Nature Park, located in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Running the sanctuary, Chailert has devoted her life to rescuing elephants and educating the world about the horrors that they face in the tourism and logging industries.
These working elephants are separated from their mothers as calves and “broken” through weeks of physical abuse so that they become submissive to their trainers. After this, elephants are forced to perform backbreaking labor from morning to night, taking tourists for rides through the forests or clearing trees in the logging industry. In Thailand half of all 3,000 to 4,000 elephants are domesticated for work.
Altogether, Chailert has helped free almost 100 elephants from abusive situations. The care given to the residents at Elephant Nature Park is often the first time these animals have experienced love from a human being. In the photo below, it’s easy to see that these elephants have as much love for their caretaker as she has for them.
Seeing this relationship makes us wonder how any human being could harm such sweet, gentle beings. We’re so glad that people like Chailert are there to give these animals the respect and happy lives they deserve. You can help spread Chailert’s mission by never visiting an elephant tourist attraction and discouraging your friends and family members from doing so too. Share this article to maximize your impact. (Source)
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One of those individuals is Lek Chailert, founder of Elephant Nature Park, located in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Running the sanctuary, Chailert has devoted her life to rescuing elephants and educating the world about the horrors that they face in the tourism and logging industries.
These working elephants are separated from their mothers as calves and “broken” through weeks of physical abuse so that they become submissive to their trainers. After this, elephants are forced to perform backbreaking labor from morning to night, taking tourists for rides through the forests or clearing trees in the logging industry. In Thailand half of all 3,000 to 4,000 elephants are domesticated for work.
Altogether, Chailert has helped free almost 100 elephants from abusive situations. The care given to the residents at Elephant Nature Park is often the first time these animals have experienced love from a human being. In the photo below, it’s easy to see that these elephants have as much love for their caretaker as she has for them.
Seeing this relationship makes us wonder how any human being could harm such sweet, gentle beings. We’re so glad that people like Chailert are there to give these animals the respect and happy lives they deserve. You can help spread Chailert’s mission by never visiting an elephant tourist attraction and discouraging your friends and family members from doing so too. Share this article to maximize your impact. (Source)
❤️La vraie générosité consiste à faire plaisir sans espérance de revanche.The real generosity consists in pleasing without hope of revenge.[Chevalier de Méré]
Posted by Geneviève Fumal on Monday, February 29, 2016
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Lullaby to elephant (Night Time)
Even she now a big girl, Faa Mai still love to have Lek lullaby to make her sleep well. Every time when Lek sit next to her while she lay down, she get deep sleep and snore very loud. Good night everyone and have a good dream.For More video : www.youtube.com/elephantnews
Posted by Patty Enp on Sunday, June 7, 2015
thank God for this amazing and beautiful woman its so hard to see how humans treat the most precious gifts we have been given from our creator so thank you to this lovley lady for her lifetime work .Val Bounds in Perth Western Australia