“I think the better way is to promote welfare, educate people and do ... with directly interactive (riding, bathing, touching, feeding, close-up photographs) in elephant tourism are unresolvable.” ...

When Mandjullah took the kids for a ride on ... back of the elephant pit through which she could have entered. To a friend she had said: “I often find animals kinder than people.” ...

An expert on Asian elephants is sounding the alarm about “elephant sanctuaries” after a tourist was killed while visiting one in Thailand. Blanca Ojanguren García, 22, a law student at the ...