I read the following comment in a group: “It makes me want to go to the S.F. Airport with flyers to hand out to people boarding flights to Bangkok.”
In fact this is a way to do as we are used to that and I thought months ago already about this possibility for local use. Unfortunately [...]
Archive for June, 2008
Good idea how to spread the word concerning the street-elephants!
Posted in begging street elephants in Thailand, tagged abuse, action, action against Thai street elephants, elephant abuse, Thai begging elephants, Thailand, tourists on Monday, 30 June, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
An open letter to the Thai Tourist Board concerning the begging elephants
Posted in begging street elephants in Thailand, tagged animal abuse, Bangkok, begging elephants, city elephants, elephant abuse, elephants, street elephants, Thailand on Sunday, 29 June, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Bangkok, June 29, 2008
Dear Madam, Sir
Herewith I am confronting you sadly again with the ongoing abuse of what was once Thailand’s proud symbol: the Elephant.
I cannot judge other Thai cities than Bangkok where I live but everyone knows that the same is going on there, like I have heard in Pattaya/Jomtien (of course, good “business”) [...]
KEONJHAR: a mob burned an elephant to death alive
Posted in various animal abuse, tagged animal crualty, crual, India, Indian animal crualty, mad crualty, madness on Saturday, 28 June, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
People of a town in Orissa’s Keonjhar district executed a barbaric revenge on an elephant that had killed eight people over the last two years.
The Times Of India
Philosophical statements concerning animals
Posted in various on Friday, 27 June, 2008 | 1 Comment »
“I will NOT remain silent. I will speak for those who cannot, or will not speak, and it will hurt.”
Daharja
We are the same as our animal friends with one exception, we have a choice and a voice, animals don’t
WanderingSolesPhotog raphy / Jo
I like pigs.
Dogs look up to us.
Cats look down on us.
Pigs treat us as [...]
Bangkok market a hub for illegal international trade in freshwater turtles and tortoises
Posted in illegal trade at Bangkok's Chatuchak market on Friday, 27 June, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
25 Apr 2008
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia—Thailand is a major hub for the international trade in illegal freshwater turtles and tortoises, finds a new report, Pet freshwater turtle and tortoise trade in Chatuchak Market, Bangkok, Thailand, launched today by TRAFFIC, the wildlife monitoring network, a joint programme of WWF and IUCN.
Surveys of Chatuchak Market (also known [...]
Is Chatuchak really THE place to buy a pet???
Posted in illegal trade at Bangkok's Chatuchak market on Wednesday, 25 June, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I THINK NO!!
YouTube
WHY accepting this injustice?? A new generation is joining the abuse! THERE IS NO EXCUSE WHATSOEVER!
Posted in begging street elephants in Thailand, tagged abuse, animal abuse, animals, Bangkok, begging elephants, city elephants, elephant abuse, elephants, street elephants, Thai laws. insuficient Thai laws, Thailand, weak Thai laws on Tuesday, 24 June, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The begging elephants are getting in the street-scene of Bangkok (and other towns) again more and more common unfortunately. This abuse is against the Thai law but this law has not been enforced in a proper way. One of the reasons is that, when the authorities are coming into action the mahouts are getting besurk, [...]
The myth of the “Tiger Temple” (Wat Pha Luang Ta Bua) dismantled!
Posted in various animal abuse, tagged abuse, animal abuse, animal cruelty, animal exploitation, animal poaching, animal trafficking, animal trafficking Laos, annimal trafficking Thailand, Care For The Wild, cruelty, CWI, illegal, injured animals, injured tigers, Kachanaburi, Lao animal trafficking, Laos, poaching, restrained animals, restrained tigers, Thai animal trafficking, Thailand, the Tiger Temple, tiger abuse, tiger cruelty, tiger exploitation, tiger poaching, Tiger Temple, tiger trafficking, tigers, trafficking, Wat Pha Luang Ta Bua on Tuesday, 24 June, 2008 | 2 Comments »
After a investigation of two years by “Care for the Wild International (CWI)” it seems that the Temple’s “conservation work” isn’t that innocent and clean as they promote. According this report the Temple in Kachanaburi hides a reality of violence and illegal tiger-trafficking between Thailand and Laos.
Tiger Temple, or Wat Pha Luang Ta Bua, is [...]
The Story of Boon Rod – a begging elephant
Posted in begging street elephants in Thailand on Monday, 23 June, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“By Lek Chailert” 20 Jul 2005
When the sun sets birds fly back home to their nests and land animals find their way back home. For elephants it is meant as a time for rest, a time to be with their families. For Boon Rod nighttime was a nightmare.
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