Non-profit organization Save The Asian Elephants (STAE) is pushing for a new U.K. law to ban the advertising, promotion, and sale of unethical Asian elephant-related events and activities. The organization will soon meet virtually with the Prime Minister’s top officials for their fifth e-meeting to address this important campaign for change.
In Britain, elephant-related attractions skyrocketed in popularity with the country’s package tourism boom during the 1960s, the Daily Telegraph reported. To cater to the demand for so-called “entertainment,” wild elephant calves are snatched from their mothers, ‘broken’ into submission by trainers, and forced to perform unnatural tricks and activities.
Every year, millions of British tourists flock to Southeast Asia, where they unknowingly participate in exploitative and dangerous forced elephant labor, according to STAE founder and CEO Duncan McNair. And the Association of British Travel Agents (ABTA) supports these cruel attractions.
STAE and thousands of activists around the world are urging Britain to ditch the harmful promotion of these cruel venues in exchange for supporting sanctuaries, where elephants can live out their lives free from the burden of giving rides or entertaining park visitors.
And now is the perfect time for a change. As COVID-19 continues to spread around the planet with no apparent end in sight, the dangers of zoonotic diseases are much more visible. Close contact between people and elephants gives potentially deadly pathogens, such as anthrax and tuberculosis, the opportunity to infect people.
Cruel elephant tourism has fallen largely out-of-favor in the U.K., with an estimated 79 percent of the British population supporting the newly proposed law.
The best way to marvel at the sight of one of the world’s largest animals is from a distance, so elephants can continue to engage in their natural behaviors, uninterrupted by visitors. Lady Freethinker urges everyone to sign STAE’s petition — which is nearing 1 million signatures — to end the cruel treatment of elephants in Asia.

Wild animals are not put on this planet for the entertainment of humans.
Subjecting them to a life of performing tricks or carrying people around on their backs is inhumane and unnatural, depriving them of living a natural life and practicing natural behaviours.
Please stop the use of Asian Elephants for the entertainment of people, who have so many more cruelty-free options to entertain themselves.
I am fighting for all animals all the time the other day l picked up a dead fox been run over by a car and laided him or her
to one side of the edge l risked my life with cars going past but l could not leave the fox in the road l sad a pray for the fox
and hope one day humans will treat animals with love. l am a big animal lover and would never be cruel to any animal.
my nan told me if you cruel to gods animals he pays back in funny ways.
Ban all hunting for animals
Ban cruel treatment of the elephants and all animals
ANIMAL LIVES MATTER
LOVE FROM UK
please end the cruel treatment of the elephants they need to be free not hunted, beat, or any other cruel things
please end the cruel treatment of the elephants they need to be free not hunted, beat, or any other cruel things
Animals are not sent on this earth to be used and anused. Please stop this cruelty. We are living in modern times not in the stone age, neither in Robin Hood time. THIS MUST BE BANNED. It’s high time we learn to respect and protect animals.
Why are these two-legged demonic creatures always finding evil ways to make God‘s creations miserable? Elephant rides; how archaic and ancient that is. Leave the animals alone in their own habitat and stay the hell out of it. Let them live in peace. You two-legged monsters have done enough in helping with the destruction of this world and its sane inhabitants and now you’re adding animals to the list. Get a real life, please.
Animals were not put on this earth to.entertain us 🐘🐘.
Please do something good, be kind to elephants.
Please do something good, be kind to elephants.