The elephant situation in Thailand and a plea for co-operation – Roger Lohanan

A Corporate Document Repository of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO):
“Introduction
Thai elephants have been highly praised and nationally proclaimed throughout history, but very little has been done to protect them. The threats against Thai elephants come only from human exploitation. Direct threats include poaching for ivory and elephant calves, and [...]

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Street wandering elephants in Bangkok

A Corporate Document Repository of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO):
An extract:
“Siam was one of the first countries in Southeast Asia to have laws concerning elephants, especially white ones. As elephants were used in warfare, royal decrees concerning the capture of elephants were gazetted. The first law was gazetted in [...]

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Remembering TYKE: 10 Year Commemorative August 15, 2004; an elephant gunned down in the streets of Honolulu

I would just like to take an opportunity to commemorate our hero, Tyke, as August 20, 2004 marks the 10-year anniversary of her most hideous death.
Tyke, as most will recall, was the circus elephant who courageously rebelled on television worldwide back in August of 1994. She first killed her trainer, trampled a groomer [...]

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