Botswana Regrettably Lifts Its 5-Year Moratorium On Elephant Hunting.
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This is a crying shame BUT was to be expected.
Landlocked and very sparsely populated Botswana is NOT poor by African standards. It makes good money from mining and tourism and has a growing economy. But, elephant hunting is LUCRATIVE money and will, ironically, boost tourism — i.e., and influx of RICH hunters with money to throw around.
Shame. A crying shame.
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Remarkable & RARE Elephant Rescue At Sea By The Sri Lankan Navy.
Click here for the original from the U.K. Guardian.
Click to ENLARGE and read snippet. Use link above to access the U.K. Guardian original.
Where this took place.
Northeast Sri Lanka north of ‘Trinco‘.
Pretty incredible, very suave and at the same time SO Sri Lankan!
I have told you multiple time, the most recent just 6-days ago, about the special relationship that Sri Lankans have with elephants, whether wild or domesticated.
This elephant, a WILD one from the jungles in that part of the country, was found 10 miles from shore! They think it was swept out, accidentally, by a strong current. Wow. I have never heard of elephants needing to be rescued from the sea. Has got me thinking. This one was, serendipitously, spotted. Does this mean we lose elephants at sea! That is NO joke. That would be such a waste. IF I had any sway in Sri Lanka I would urge the relevant officials to try and determine whether this was a freak or not.
That they spend 12 hours bringing it back close to shore is CLASSIC Sri Lankan. We are into low-tech and trial-and-error. Notice there was no attempt to put some sort of large floatation collar around the elephant. They must have some in Sri Lanka for salvage and rescue purposes. Just using ropes to pull an elephant weighing a few tons seems cruel. But, they saved his life — we think.
Well done. Hats off.
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The ‘Elephant Sanctuary’ In Tennessee, Currently With 10 Elephants — Closed To The Public But With ‘Webcams’ Called ‘Elecams’.
Click image to access the Sanctuary’s Website at ‘elephants.com’ (which is a way cool domain name).
Click to ENLARGE and read this snippet here. Use link above to access original.
The Webcam, i.e., Elecam, page. Use link at top to access. By the time I got around to doing this it was close to 9pm (Eastern) and I assume the elephants had gone to bed in that I couldn’t see any activity.
Deanna send me a link to this ‘Elephant Sanctuary‘ this morning and asked me to do a blog post and stress that they have Elicams.
I think I had heard about this sanctuary before, BUT I am more than happy to publicize it since I deeply care about the welfare of all elephants — coming from Ceylon where we have both wild and domesticated elephants, some as pets for the landed wealthy.
Appears it was founded 22-years ago, in its current location, albeit with 1/12th the land, by Carol Buckley and Scott Blais to provide a safe and comfortable refuge for one ex=performing elephant. They have grown since then and have had up to 27 elephants at one time — all of them former circus or zoo elephants. This is great. Unlike in Sri Lanka, where we also have a famous elephant sanctuary, they don’t have to worry about taking care of orphaned baby elephants.
I do get this Tennesse confused with the Ringling Brothers & Barnum and Bailey ‘Center for Elephant Conservation‘ (CEC) for their retired elephants.
The link to this site, http://www.ringlingelephantcenter.com, is NO LONGER working!
I went looking for this site just now and was chagrined to find that the link no longer works! That does not make me happy. I, of course, Googled. Can’t find anything that says it has closed. Maybe they took down the link to avoid cyber and possibly in person harassment by those that have gone after the circus for so long about their elephants. I will have to keep an eye on this.
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Ringling Brothers/Barnum & Bailey May No Longer Have Elephants But The Kora Shrine Circus DOES!
From their Facebook page (). And I think this is RECENTLY. They had 3 performing today (Saturday) in Augusta.
Click to access their Web page.
From their Facebook page. Looks colorful enough.
From their Facebook page again. I heard that Ringling have stopped doing the human cannonball too!
We were in Maine today, and Deanna’s niece had taken her 3-year old son to ‘the circus‘ in Augusta, Maine.
She was telling us all about it when she casually mentioned that ‘this year’ they had 3 elephants performing — whereas in past years they have only had one perform.
WOW. I grilled her. Appears that there were NO demonstrators, no protests.
Wow.
I checked it out as soon as I got home.
VERY different to Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey.
For a start they do a 9:30am show. That would be good for some kids. I heard, however, that the 9:30am show, in Augusta, on Saturday, April 22, 2017, was not even half full!
Their MOST expensive tickets — reserved seating — is only $12! I am not even going to tell you what we are paying for our tickets, in Manchester, for Ringling Brothers.
The elephant dichotomy seems incongruous.
Was it JUST Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey that were targeted? If so that would be unfair. How do we know that these other circuses treat their elephants any differently?
I need to research this further.
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Making Elephants Kneel In Front Of Buddha Statues Is Very Juvenile — And Sri Lankan.
Seen on Facebook. I am NOT going to provide a link so as to protect the ….
Yes, I know that the mahout thinks he is doing something NOBLE. And I really don’t want to criticize the mahouts. They are typically not the most educated of folks and their skills are in dealing with elephants.
But Buddhist monks and others, better educated, should prevent this from taking place.
IF an elephant, on its own volition, wants to kneel or pay homage in any other way, to a Buddha statue or anything Buddha-related, I am ALL IN FAVOR. That is fine.
But do NOT make a noble animal do something that it has no idea as to why it is doing so. That is not cricket.
A domesticated, tame elephant, 99% will do whatever it is asked to do. But, come on. This is NOT right.
This upset me. As you may know I do not totally object to elephants being made to perform because like dogs they like to please. But we need to have limits.
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“When Elephants Were Young” Movie About Asian Elephants For “World Elephant Day” 2016.
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Celebrate August 12, 2016 “World Elephant Day” In The Hamptons.
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