Comments on: Thailand Journal: Extinction is Forever

By: My Thailand Elephant Camp Experience in Video Form - Evan Roberts

My Thailand Elephant Camp Experience in Video Form - Evan Roberts — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:57:14 +0000

[...] a job explaining the wonderful experience I had at the Patara Elephant Farm when I was in Thailand here and here, National Geographic has a video out today that almost exactly explains my experience and [...]

By: Ev

Ev — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 12:58:37 +0000

thanks for completely missing the point. This wasn’t your typical lets go for an elephant ride farm. These elephants WERE domesticated and abused elephants who are now being rehabed. They aren’t chained up, and go go where they want to but they choose to stay around. They are healthy and actually GROWING in population…. feel free to read up http://www.pataraelephantfarm.com/

By: Reuben

Reuben — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 12:37:17 +0000

The reason that elephants are nearing extinction in Thailand is that for centuries they have been considered commodities – something to own, use up, kill or allow to live. You have just written an article explaining how much fun you had doing just that. You do not OWN wild animals like elephants – and make no mistake, just because these poor creatures have been used and abused in Asia for centuries does not mean that they are “domesticated” animals – they are still wild. You watched them chained, and giving rides, and I’m sure you saw many bullhooks or knives or other weapons that were used to threaten or beat them into submission – perhaps not right in front of you, but if you know anything about how these animals were trained, you’d know that it does not have to be right in front of you! And you chose this place, instead of a “true” conservation camp, or a rescue camp such as the Elephant Nature Park, which does NOT continue the exploitation of its elephants. Shame on you.