Elephants are enormous animals that are an enormous business for tourist destinations. Offering interactions such as shows, elephant rides, bathing or simply using them as photo props for selfies. World Animal Protection, an international non-profit animal welfare organization, has surveyed the tourism industry throughout Asia and counted over 3,800 captive elephants across many countries. The…

I visited Elephant nature park in Chiang Mai as a volunteer this year, and everything I had experienced was totally out of my expectations. This amazing place is mainly an elephant sanctuary with other animals such as buffaloes, dogs, cats, goats and even baby monkeys rescued by the staffs. This park salvages Asian elephants which…