Tourists beware – yet another instance of animal cruelty was revealed when Save the Asian Elephant (STAE) published an undercover video of men “training” an elephant for India’s tourism industry. In the video, filmed in November 2017, the elephant is tied to a tree so it can’t escape. Three men surround the animal and beat him repeatedly with canes until he collapses. Even after he falls over, the men continue to hit the elephant, all for the benefit of vacationers.
A representative from STAE told Mail Online the men in the video hit elephants this way to train them and assert human dominance. In this case, the “trainers” in the video hit the elephant so forcefully that they broke his leg, as well as the sticks they used to inflict the beating.
“The whole of humanity is shamed by this depravity to an innocent creature and a highly endangered species,” the CEO of STAE told Mail Online. “It does all it can to obey yet the beating continues.”
*Shocking Video*: #Elephant has its leg BROKEN as workers ‘tame’ it during a beating to break the animal’s spirit for use in tourist attractions in #India . https://t.co/6Jx5W75IXx @stae_elephants in the @MailOnline today. #TTOT #STAE #AnimalWelfare #Elephants #UKCharityWeek
— STAE (@stae_elephants) December 4, 2017
This is an all too common occurrence, as evidenced by countless reports of animal abuse in the tourism industry.
One study examining elephants in the tourism industry concluded that living conditions were deplorable in 75 percent of the cases. Elephants stand on concrete floors, which puts strain on their muscles, causing arthritis and foot injuries. They are kept in states of constant stress: chained, beaten, and torn from their families.
To make matters worse, increased tourism has upped the demand for elephants in the industry. As a result, the number of elephants in captivity has risen by 30 percent from 2010 to 2016.
The torture of this elephant is just one example of the merciless treatment of animals kept in captivity for tourism, and a reminder that ethical tourism requires research and caution. Although as animal lovers it’s tempting to visit exotic animals on your travels, keep in mind that what goes on behind the scenes is – almost always – far from cute and cuddly. Before booking your trip or interacting with animals on your vacation, make sure you aren’t unknowingly contributing to animal cruelty.
Growing awareness of the abuse involved in exploiting animals for tourism has prompted travel companies like Thomas Cook to stop selling tickets so such attractions, and Trip Advisor no longer books trips that bring tourists in contact with wild or endangered species. This is a heartwarming trend, and one we hope will catch on as instances of cruelty like this continue to be uncovered.
I hope someone brakes this stupid person’s leg!!!! How can he do that and get away with it? I am praying that the elephant was rescued and saved!!!
This stuff brings me to tears! I will never visit India unless this shit is stopped
WTF kill the scum bags cunts!
these people should not be spared. strict action should be taken against them
I think it’s time for Jesus to come back now and mankind now. We are too evil to exist. Fuck humanity.
Why didn’t they DO SOMETHING?
Horrible and ridiculous!
Reply to Carol andemburg throw him in the ocean and feed the pirrinah and let them eat the shit to nothing because that’s all they are to do this to the elephant I hope thst elephant is ok and free from harm from these assholes
Please let us know what happened to the elephant, can or will they cast the leg, and can the elephant be taken from them because of the abuse. The mentality of people in so many of these countries there is no respect with or for life, lets rescue the animals and send those offenders on a one way trip out to sea to feed the fish!
What happened to the elephant???? I hope that he was rescued!!! There should be severe punishment for these demons!! Elephants ARE ENDANGERED! VIOLATION of CITES!!! Also Gandhi would ROLL in his grave!!! India should be ASHAMED to be SO CRUEL!!!!! HORRIFIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Beat those aholes and break their legs. Bunch of POS punks.
I hate slanty eyes!!!! Trash
TO think we send medical staff and Millions of pounds of aid to these people when there’s an Ebola of Famine out break.These people do not deserve any aid the way they treat animals and their selves They are Tribal and will always be at war if their are to Cowardly to fight man to man then they take it out on Animals .These people breed like flies we do not need to help them they will never die out but the Elephants and other wild life will and is .?
These coward, sadist sociopath POS deserve to be beaten to DEATH!! Punishment MUST fit the heinous crimes committed by this human trash; that is, DEATH SENTENCE!! The message must be loud and clear. You abuse, torture and/or murder the most innocent and defenseless creatures, you get DEATH SENTENCE! Earth needs a humanoid cleanse NOW!
Wherethe helldo these guys live.I realy want to go there and give each one of them the same treatment but I wont be as nice as they were.
I hope I see the day that justice prevails for our beautiful animals that share this beautiful Earth with us. And the inhumane people of this planet are all held accountable for
Horrible! Where is a petition on this page to sign? Not that it will stop such idiot people from doing these terrible abusive things to innocent animals.
kill this coward.
ALL I CAN SAY IS “BURN IN HELL”!!