Unless you lot alive nether a stone you’ll know almost the plight of African elephants, which are falling victim to the ivory merchandise at an alarming rate. An elephant roaming costless on the African savannah suffers the minute a poacher shoots too needlessly slaughters the fauna for its ivory. But it’s rarely ivory poachers who threaten its cousin the Asian elephant; it’s holidaymakers.
Wildlife tourism across South Eastern Asia is a money-spinning manufacture worth millions of U.S. of America dollars a year. It plays a huge role inward desecrating the highly endangered Asian elephant. Elephants giving trekking rides heavily laden amongst passengers, or shows amongst elephants performing degrading circus tricks, or paraded inward costume through street festivals inward extreme heat, through the din of firecrackers, drums too jostling crowds - all these attractions convey the same purpose; to entice coin from tourists. Unwittingly, holidaymakers are using their wallets to fuel exploitation too brutality to the Asian elephant for ‘entertainment’.
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