Kiwi tourists urged not to ride elephants in Thailand

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https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2018/08/kiwi-tourists-urged-not-to-ride-elephants-in-thailand.html
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Kiwi tourists urged not to ride elephants in Thailand

6 hours ago
Alex Baird

New Zealand travellers are being told to steer clear of elephant riding due to the severe abuse the animals face.

Intrepid Travel co-founder Geoff Manchester released shocking footage on Sunday - which happens to be World Elephant Day - to show tourists the dark side of elephant riding in Thailand.

"A female elephant will be shot and then its baby is captured," Mr Manchester says. "That baby is then tortured until it's willing to submit to humans and it's then trained to do elephant riding."

He was the person who first put elephant riding on Intrepid's regular itinerary - but in 2014, his company realised its mistake and banned the rides.

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I was going to post this in the New Zealand group, until I found that there isn't one.

Some world maps don't have New Zealand on them, either.
See https://www.reddit.com/r/MapsWithoutNZ/

Call me crazy, but I see the makings of a pretty good conspiracy theory.