BEST ETHICAL ELEPHANT SANCTUARY ! THAILAND Vlog #2
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ต.ค. 2024
- BEST DAY EVER! A day in the life of an elephant trainer, spent in a Karen tribe village near Chiang Mai (Thailand) with super HEALTHY and HAPPY elephants! 🐘 I did my research and most definetly would not had wanted to participate to any sort of animal cruelty. In fact today was just the opposite and if you ever want to spend some time with elephants in Thailand, I super highly recommend Karen Tribe's Native Elephants! We each had "our own" elephant, which we had to take care of. We learned the morning routine to check that they are healthy, got to feed them (a lot), bathe them, walk them, and even made plant based medicine to keep them strong and healthy.
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I visited an elephant sanctuary in Chiang Mai a few months ago and the elephants were free to come and go as they pleased. Our guide told us at first that we might only have 2-3 elephants that day, but several more came into the village as the morning progressed and we had 10-11 at the peak, but then some walked off after getting the food and we had 6 for the mud bath and the washing in the river. It's hard to speak for an elephant, but they seemed to be having a great time and were quite playful. These are clearly very intelligent animals.
If they're so ethical why do they allow riding the elephants?
ITS not ethical then fake sanctuary. poor elephants ;(
Just for a little bist to enjoint
Tourist . It,s not to hard like
before ever done
You have to look back in the past. How many years people have been riding elephant? We Karen tribe native elephant have been taking care of elephant before tourism. The trip here it is not about ride or not ride. The whole idea is to keep them healthy and happy. From the beginning until now none of they go to hospital.
There are some elephant sanctuary that runs by foreigners who married Thai lady and man. They saud they rescuse elephant but the truth is they buy elephant from people. They said no riding because without riding they can take many tourist everyday. The can make more money. They said people train elephant very bad in order to ride. Basically, they buy the elephant that people had trained so that elephant can be with people. It is all about business.
The truth is elephant situation in Thailand not as bad as they advertise on the internet.
Regards
Karen tribe team
@@อาทิตย์อาทิตย์-พ6ฦ 'elephant sanctuary that runs by foreigners who married Thai lady' that u talk about, say good things about you in their website, you know ? that is how i found about this vlog.
well, don't use the hook, and the elephants looks pretty happy to me.
Sorry ,but you miss the whole point of Elephant Sanctuary. Riding an Elephant is not good for them.
Okay, I am having mixed feelings.
You can tell the elephants are happy and healthy...agreed?
But this isn’t a completely “Ethical” sanctuary at all.
Allowing elephants to be themselves in their environment is ethical.
Nothing about riding elephants is ethical.
I do see that they truly care for the elephants. With that I’m a little pleased. Not much but please change the title to not say best ethical sanctuary because it is not.
You all looked like you had a wonderful time. Thank you for the lovely video.
Agreed 100% . Just because it says ethical doesn't mean it is. I'd do more research before I did something like this
I must have missed where you let the elephant ride you. Riding animals is not ethical at all. There are actually ethical sanctuaries in Thailand that promote true health and happiness for the elephants. Do NOT go anywhere that allows visitors to ride the elephants.
You have to look back in the past. How many years people have been riding elephant? We Karen tribe native elephant have been taking care of elephant before tourism. The trip here it is not about ride or not ride. The whole idea is to keep them healthy and happy. From the beginning until now none of they go to hospital.
There are some elephant sanctuary that runs by foreigners who married Thai lady and man. They saud they rescuse elephant but the truth is they buy elephant from people. They said no riding because without riding they can take many tourist everyday. The can make more money. They said people train elephant very bad in order to ride. Basically, they buy the elephant that people had trained so that elephant can be with people. It is all about business.
The truth is elephant situation in Thailand not as bad as they advertise on the internet.
Regards
Karen tribe team
@Kyle Tiney 💯 Agreed with you
@@อาทิตย์อาทิตย์-พ6ฦ This lady you’re talking about is Lek Charleit! She is Awesomely Good Hearted woman and her husband is a good man! Yes, if the only way to save Elephants from a life of slavery is to buy them! Why not ! They must do it!
On top of that Lek talk in a good way about Karen Village, there’s even some videos that that shoot there! And in those recent videos the people at Karen Village never ride on the back of the elephants! Maybe in this video it happened accidentally with that tourist!
And I will add that Elephants Nature Park is a Reputable Sanctuary where they offer a decent and happy life to those rescued elephants because it’s impossible for them to go back in the wild! After all those years of mistreatment and misery on the hands of people!
Please stop talking bad about Lek Charleit and her husband! They don’t do that toward you!
At Karen Village the elephants are also happy but only to have the courage to say no to the tourists if they want to ride the elephants!
Agreed 100%. The truth comes out about so called "ethical" sanctuaries- which this is not! Sad to see people buy into the lies and support monsters!
The
elephants in this park look like they are treated quite well, for sure. No
doubt. But consider this for a moment. These elephants have been abused in the
past in many terrible ways at the hands of humans. They have physical scars as
well as emotional and psychological scars. They were all brutalized in the
process of breaking down their will to impose a tyrannical submission to the
will of humans. But what is most compelling to me is that these animals have
souls that are probably the closest to the human soul than any other species of
mammal that walks on the planet. And their memories are in some ways sharper
than human memory, and they can remember far back into the past. They laugh and
they cry and they watch over their babies like humans do. They were humiliated
in their previous slave lives by the will of humans, and when you climb up on
their backs, you are once again imposing a kind of human demand of submission.
What about their dignity? Don’t they have a right to be respected, not because
they can be ridden, but just because they are majestic creatures with a right to
walk free on the planet like any other being? How do we know, if when a person
climbs up on their back, they aren’t reminded once again of their former
brutalized lives? Knowing this, I would be content to feed them, walk with
them, rub their backs and just admire them and not take the chance that I would
be reminding them once again of the horrors of the past. Think about it.
Joe Giuffrida Wow, wonderfully explained! 👍👍👍✌️
@@k.wegner thank you for the explanation
Joe Giuffrida You’re absolutely right, and that is the reason why Lek forbids riding the eles in the park. She would even kick the mahuts out of there if she would catch one using a stick against the eles, or any kind of abuse.
She knows everything about eles and their souls..... ✌️🍀💜
Well Said! Completely Agree with You 👍
@@k.wegner Yes, so very true ❤️
Love love love elephants. It's so cool to see how friendly they are and how the end of there trunk looks like a hand.
Thank you very much for your visit and support Karen tribe native elephant village. There are 240 elephant experience in this country. Basically the experience is not same. We try to preserve our traditional way of taking care elephants. This is the native Karen tribe way. The day trip activities is a routine to keep them healthy and happy. We allow very small group per day. The trip is intimate and personal. The experience that we offer is one on one with elephant. @Karentribe native elephant ##Chiangmaikarentribenativeelephant
Great video, looks like you had a fantastic day! It's good to see the elephants are happy and healthy, but riding on their backs is actually really bad for them 😢
You have to look back in the past. How many years people have been riding elephant? We Karen tribe native elephant have been taking care of elephant before tourism. The trip here it is not about ride or not ride. The whole idea is to keep them healthy and happy. From the beginning until now none of they go to hospital.
There are some elephant sanctuary that runs by foreigners who married Thai lady and man. They saud they rescuse elephant but the truth is they buy elephant from people. They said no riding because without riding they can take many tourist everyday. The can make more money. They said people train elephant very bad in order to ride. Basically, they buy the elephant that people had trained so that elephant can be with people. It is all about business.
The truth is elephant situation in Thailand not as bad as they advertise on the internet.
Regards
Karen tribe team
Agreed 100%. How is abusing and torturing and using these elephants for tourism "ethical " at all???
The elephant has chains and you actually rode on the elephant and still calling it ethical? This is the tourist trap you want to specifically avoid if you truly care about elephants.
Sorry but neither the sanctuary nor you riding on the back of the elephant is ethical by any stretch of imagination.
Definitely not an ethical Sanctuary
WoW ! Quelle magnifique vidéo ! Merci de nous avoir fait partager tout ça avec toi ! 😚
I had a chance to experience this myself in Thailand! I'm saying the same - the best day ever :)
The Travel Leaf You rode elephants and did all the to tourist crap like elephant painting and elephant massage?
chain around there body and neck riding not ethical
Maybe im blind or something but aint it rope ya fucking muppet. U put chain and rope around dog and u think this is different wtf.
Daze Lopez the point is NOTHING should be around the elephants body (rope or chain) compared to the REAL elephant sanctuaries this “so called” elephant sanctuary is full of shit.
@@dazelopez6372 👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎
@@Meiday11 True that !
💯Agreed!
Chaing Mai is high on my list of places to see and an elephant sanctuary would be lovely. Thank you for doing the research to find happy elephants and not just tourist traps.
Clarice
Exactly what I was thinking
Was going to comment on this
Forgive Me If I'm Wrong!!!
The Karen Tribe
Made a reference to a man & a woman buying Elephants; it's about business
Firstly I think that person may have been talking about Lek & Darrick.
Secondly that person failed to mention that Lek & Darrick buy the Elephants from poverty stricken people who can no longer feed & care for their Elephants
Thirdly Lek & Darrick & the lady from BLES rescue Elephants from years of abuse in the circus; the logging industry shows etc the list goes on
I've been to 15 countries and Chiang Mai is still on my mind almost everyday after I visited. One of my favorite cities and it just changes your life after you visit!
Cool channel. Well done! We truly liked it.
I love these animals, and I'm so glad to see that there are still places where you can visit them, and where they are taking care of really well.
Being taken care of does NOT include riding them. That continues the abuse.
Nope
I'm pretty sure the most ethical elephant sanctuaries in Thailand, or anywhere else are the ones where people are not riding the animals. The Elephant Nature Park in Chiang Mai would be one of those. Some have tried to make the case that it's the sitting frames that create the problems for the elephants, not a human body. But these animals are highly intelligent and have phenomenal memories, like humans. How would you like to have to confront the memory of some past trauma every day like having to see the person who attacked you over and over again, every day? Think about it. I think these animals can be enjoyed and appreciated without having to get up on their backs and ride them around.
perfect, bravo lucas
Well Said👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Agreed 100%
We spent a day there a few weeks ago. These elephants roam on the Karen Tribe land. They come and go as they please. It seems there are many elephant experts, but just spend a day with the people who have for generations lived with these elephants and learn about these amazing animals from the people who know them. Their elephants are healthy, happy and naturally breeding, which is a sign of health and contentment.
Here is a blog post I wrote a few months back on the elephants in Thailand.
theworldnus.com/elephants-in-thailand-the-ugly-truth/
An Elephant you can ride and do ride means it was broken with harsh treatment with sharpened hooks, ropes and chains. By riding them you promote breaking them- So "Best Ethical" isn't a very accurate title for this video.
Don’t talk shit about shit you know nothing about
Axel Sharpshire 💯Agreed with you
@@jarnodatema 👎
At Elephant Nature Park Sanctuary you cannot ride elephants! No to elephants riding!
Agreed 100%
We will be living in Chiang Mai soon and will need to add this place to our bucketlist!
I’ve been looking for an ethical place to go, but not going to a place that rides elephants.
Go to Elephants Nature Park in Chang Mai ! Go to their Facebook account or Eleflix on TH-cam or Elephantsnews
Or Google Elephant Nature Park!
The owner is Lek Charleit! Amazing good hearted and compassionate woman!
At her sanctuary No riding elephants! You walk by their side..,
It is nice to see that more people are going to the Elephant Sanctuary, especially in Thailand where elephants are abused by human
Good to know there's a place that treats the elephants well!
Such a HUGE bucket list item for me. It's so cool you had this opportunity!
Perfect video but I would remove the music and simply leave the original audio.
Awesome experience!!
Riding on the elephant is not ethical..seems like the elephant train to carry a tourist..
so cool. 🐘🐘🐘💟💟💟👍👍👍
I from Chaing mai thailand welcome to Chaing mai 😊😊😊😊😊
Yes, riding elephants is not ethical.
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Good
i dont think so that this guy woke up one day, made a walk, and suddenly these elephants appeared in front of him and they started to follow him to his home you know
Exactly! Years of abuse and torture
Alot of places are called "sanctuaries" but aren't and are definitely not ethical.
When looking for a good sanctuary make sure it doesn't have so much interaction with the animals such as bathing and riding. The elephants don't like it and they need to be broken in to do so.
They should send free to jungles
Riding elephants is not ethical!.
allowing people to ride the elephant,, horrible sanctuary.. would never go to this place
Superbe vidéo qui résume bien la journée que vous avez pu passé ! ça donne envie d'être en contact avec les éléphants de cette manière là. Merci pour le partage Chloé ! :)
Hello Marion! Merci pour ton commentaire, et ravie que la vidéo te plaise. C'était vraiment une journée magique qu'il fallait absolument que je partage!
Oui on ressent bien toutes les bonnes émotions que vous avez eu cette journée là, c'est top! Si je vais en Thaïlande ces prochaines années c'est au programme c'est sûr! :)
Are you going to continue promoting riding elephants. It’s a hot potato that needs to be highlighted and banned.
Welcome to Thailand.
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To all these sensitive ppl about riding the elephant...dont worry he can carry alot. Why arent you guys so worried when you see ppl riding horses,donkeys or camels??? Sensitive
Irrelevants and hypocrites
do you let her ride ??
You have to look back in the past. How many years people have been riding elephant? We Karen tribe native elephant have been taking care of elephant before tourism.
There are some elephant sanctuary that runs by foreigners who married Thai lady and man. They saud they rescuse elephant but the truth is they buy elephant from people. They said no riding because without riding they can take many tourist everyday. The can make more money. They said people train elephant very bad in order to ride. Basically, they buy the elephant that people had trained so that elephant can be with people. It is all about business.
The truth is elephant situation in Thailand not as bad as they advertise on the internet.
Regards
Karen tribe team
@@อาทิตย์อาทิตย์-พ6ฦ 👎
someone need to know riding elephant is very very very very very very light weight for it. but a horse that is smaller than elephant why you can ride it? please understand this is elephant big animal stronger
someone missed logic
No, that ain't it. Elephants are not meant to be sat upon for our amusement or transportation. Doesn't matter if we're light or heavy your NOT suppose to ride on elephants.
that is such a cool experience! I might try it when I go to Thailand! How much did it cost?
Hi! It was 3000 bahts per son (if you share an elephant) You can find more info on their website here: www.karentribenativeelephants.com :-)
that experience could cost you your life if you are not careful with these unpredictable animals.
don't ride animals
Riding on their neck is not that bad, actually. Please don’t give me a “You have to look in the past” comment
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