{"id":2389,"date":"2015-05-21T09:28:58","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T07:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/?p=2389"},"modified":"2015-05-21T09:29:24","modified_gmt":"2015-05-21T07:29:24","slug":"60-elephants-thailand-will-saved-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/2389-60-elephants-thailand-will-saved-hell","title":{"rendered":"60 elephants in Thailand will be saved from hell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We said it quite often on this blog, elephants living in trek camps in Thailand are often, very often, too often abused. 60 of them will soon have\u00a0a more peaceful life and get\u00a0the respect they deserve.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6239\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6239\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6239 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/elephants-camp-thailande.jpg\" alt=\"elephants thailand\" width=\"640\" height=\"365\" data-wp-imgselect=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6239\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">These elephants will soon be released from their hard conditions<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Thanks to\u00a0the work of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elephantnaturepark.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Elephant Nature Park<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0a\u00a0trek camp in <strong>Kanchanaburi<\/strong> province will be\u00a0turned into an elephant sanctuary on the model elephant parks\u00a0the association has already created near Chiang Mai in Surin in Isan.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZMUn68A1m5s?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>After three and a half years to try to persuade and invite many managers of elephants trek camps, their owners and their family members to change the way they treat\u00a0their elephants and make it more human, Chialert Lek, founder of the Elephant Nature Park has successfully convince\u00a0the largest camp in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/en\/cities\/kanchanaburi\"><strong>Kanchanaburi<\/strong><\/a> located in Saiyok district to stop offer tourist to ride their elephants and stop elephant shows. They now want to make the lives of their animal\u00a0more pleasant.<\/p>\n<p>This is Lek herself who announced in a <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ZMUn68A1m5s\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Youtube<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0video.<\/p>\n<p>Her team will come to help work on the project and transform the park\u00a0into\u00a0the model of the one she created\u00a0near Chiang Mai.<\/p>\n<p>This means they will\u00a0release 60 elephants from\u00a0work and give them more freedom. No more chains, they will\u00a0walk freely. No more elephant talent shows. No more tourists on their back, those who will come to visit the camp, will come to take care of them, feed them, bathe them&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>We welcome this news and we join Lek&#8217;s wish to see more elephant camps in Thailand to do the same.<\/p>\n<p>And it is also good news for tourists. A new elephant sanctuary that respects and loves its residents will soon be open near Kanchanaburi.<\/p>\n<p>We will keep you informed as soon as it is open&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We said it quite often on this blog, elephants living in trek camps in Thailand<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thailand-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389","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=2389"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2392,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389\/revisions\/2392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}