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To-day I heard on television that a Thai Minister declared to have made a budget of 3.000.000.000 Baht (around 56.000.000 Euro) for elephants and their mahouts. The plot will be near Surin and will be 6.000 rai (about 960 hA) big.
This will mean in fact the elimination of all the begging street-elephants in [...]
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