We're sure you don't need to be told, but riding elephants is not good. A new report by World Animal Protection titled Taken For A Ride says that 3 in 4 elephants in tourist entertainment venues ...

Photograph: Shem Compion. Elephant-back safaris take place twice a day at Camp Jabulani. You are surprised by how quiet an elephant is when it wants to be. Here they are padding near silently through ...

The Santa Ana Zoo is one of only a handful in the nation that still offer elephant rides. For more than 25 years, children — and some grown-ups — have turned out by the hundreds to ride on the back of ...

The Santa Ana Zoo is one of only a handful in the nation that still offer elephant rides. For more than 25 years, children - and some grown-ups - have turned out by the hundreds to ride on the back of ...

Editor’s Note: Carmel De Bedin is Hong Kong Director of Elephant Asia Rescue and Survival foundation (EARS), which supports ethical tourism initiatives throughout Asia and campaigns against animal ...

A change.org petition to ban tourists from riding elephants when visiting Angkor Wat temple complex in Cambodia's northern province of Siem Reap has amassed over 31,000 signatures. On April 22, a ...

My wife calls me “oppositional” as I leave to ride an elephant at the Santa Ana Zoo during an animal rights protest against elephant rides. She may be right. But not today. I’m on an investigative ...

THE ELEPHANT, my companion for the morning, lumbered out of the woods onto a dirt slope next to a stream in northern Thailand. He appeared calm, ears flapping and tail swinging. But he was 9 feet tall ...

You don’t see this every day: an Asian elephant walking down a public street, carrying a couple atop its back, in a wedding procession onto the grounds of the Hyatt Regency Huntington Beach Resort and ...

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