{"id":2030,"date":"2015-03-09T07:52:34","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T05:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/?p=2030"},"modified":"2015-03-09T09:12:12","modified_gmt":"2015-03-09T07:12:12","slug":"national-elephant-day-in-thailand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/2030-national-elephant-day-in-thailand","title":{"rendered":"National Elephant Day in Thailand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Thailand, elephants are important and popular, they are the emblem of the country (and the emblem of a\u00a0beer too, but that&#8217;s less relevant). They are so much loved by Thais\u00a0that they have their\u00a0own\u00a0National Day on March 13. An\u00a0opportunity to pay tribute to them and remember that they are in danger.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2031\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/elephant-park-surin-600x401.jpg\" alt=\"National Thai Elephant Day\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/elephant-park-surin-600x401.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/elephant-park-surin-624x416.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/elephant-park-surin.jpg 749w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Almost all elephants centers and parks in the country offer entertainment and large buffets on that day. We do not advise you to go to any of them to celebrate, the majority of these places are just big\u00a0tourist attractions\u00a0more thinking of\u00a0money than\u00a0the well-being of their elephants. Animal rights associations also mobilized that day to remind that elephants are\u00a0in danger even in a country like Thailand where they are\u00a0loved and respected by the majority of the population.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/c3INH61VL8E\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/><em>Video of the buffet at the Elephant Kraal in Ayutthaya (AFP)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In Thailand, the opportunities for tourists to have interactions and do activities with elephants are numerous\u00a0but those who are in a situation where these majestic animals are respected and treated well are much more less numerous. The director of\u00a0communication of a elephants preservation center and study center, told me once\u00a0thatit is impossible to learn a trick to an elephant without mistreating\u00a0it. Even teaching it\u00a0to walk tourists on its\u00a0back, is not done without violence, she said. More\u00a0tourists who enrich agencies and elephants parks\u00a0there are,\u00a0more \u00a0other elephants sufferinf the same fate there are. It is up to you to\u00a0choose between your pleasure and the well-being of these animals &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The other great danger for\u00a0the elephants around the world including those in\u00a0Thailand is\u00a0the illegal ivory trade. on this day of celebration, it seemed to us important to remember that elephants in Thailand could be better treated\u00a0and that every tourist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/eng\/\">traveling\u00a0to Thailand<\/a> has a small part\u00a0of responsibility to take this fight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Thailand, elephants are important and popular, they are the emblem of the country (and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events-festivals-thailand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2030"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2224,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030\/revisions\/2224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}