More than 1000 travel companies in the UK alone are still advertising
elephant rides. It's a cruel practise. Baby elephants are kidnapped from
their families and beaten into submission to become tourist attractions.

Tell all travel companies to ban elephant ride ads.

[ [link removed] ] Sign the petition 

   
John,

Baby elephants are being captured from their forest homes, thrown into
isolation and beaten into submission with rods and bullhooks just so they
can be used for tourist attractions.  

More than 50 travel companies, like TripAdvisor and Lonely Planet, have
stopped advertising elephant rides. But Travel Holdings, SITA World Tours,
and more than 1000 other companies in the UK are still advertising cruel
elephant rides and performances. It’s time for ALL companies to stop
profiting from the captivity and torture of these intelligent animals.  

Let’s create a massive global outcry, so that faced with customer backlash
and the threat of profit loss, these travel companies are forced to take
action. Will you sign the petition?  

[ [link removed] ]Travel Holdings, SITA World Tours and all travel companies: stop
advertising elephant rides now!

The brutal training method baby elephants are subjected to is known as
“the crush”. Young elephants are tied up with chains, confined to small
spaces and jabbed with spiked metal hooks that leave open wounds.

Tourists are being tricked into thinking that paying for elephant rides is
supporting the animals and their conservation. But all it’s doing is
increasing demand for the exploitation of baby elephants.

After a lifetime of captivity elephants can’t be released back into the
wild. But they can go to sanctuaries where tourists can observe them from
afar and jobs as elephant keepers are still available.

[ [link removed] ]Add your name to the petition: travel companies must protect elephants
and stop profiting from animal exploitation.

As it gets colder in the northern hemisphere travel companies ramp up
their advertising for elephant riding in warmer countries like Thailand.
So it’s crucial we act now to help put an end to this cruel practice.

Ekō members like you have come together to protect animals before. More
than 1.7 million people successfully demanded that SeaWorld end its Orca
Captivity program. And just last month our community demanded airline TUI
stop carrying shark fins in its cargo and days later it announced a shark
fin ban policy.

Let’s do it again and protect elephants.



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Thanks for all that you do,
Nish and the team at Ekō


More information:

[ [link removed] ]Elephant training process known as ‘the crush’ revealed in rarely-seen
footage
Independent. 24 June 2024.
[ [link removed] ]Adverts for ‘cruel’ elephant rides still rising despite new UK law,
says charity
The Guardian. 20 October 2024.

 

 

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