Elephants forced to perform tricks and carry tourists in a Thailand park are to be liberated from their controversial work as a consequence of the coronavirus, the park’s owner says. Anchalee ...

Scores of elephant tourism camps in Thailand have had to close as the coronavirus wipes out tourist numbers. While animal rights groups that lobby for their boycott may wish the demise is permanent, ...

THE ELEPHANT, my companion for the morning, lumbered out of the woods onto a dirt slope next to a stream in northern Thailand. He appeared calm, ears flapping and tail swinging. But he was 9 feet tall ...

It should have been a day like any other in Mae Wang, Thailand. But at one elephant camp in this small rural district just outside the tourism hub of Chiang Mai, the elephant handlers, or mahouts, ...

In 2017, World Animal Protection, along with various travel industry leaders, presented a business case to a group of about 15 elephant camps in Thailand. The international animal welfare organization ...

On a March morning at the Maetaeng Elephant Park in Thailand's northern Chiang Mai province, the elephants and their handlers, called mahouts, were entertaining visitors with tricks. Elephants painted ...

Traveling through the northern jungles of Thailand? Then spending some time with the elephants is a must-do! In beautiful Chiang Mai, my friend and I had the great pleasure of booking an entire day ...

Some 20 elephants have returned to a small village of Mae Chiem in Karen territory in the Chiang Mai region in the last few weeks. Before the coronavirus pandemic crisis, they were living in in one of ...

A man in Thailand has been trampled to death by an elephant that had previously been kept in a park closed due to coronavirus. The animal, which belonged to a camp in Chiang Mai, was foraging for food ...