#elephant
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This is my beautiful friend the baby elephant Sandy. Her mother Maenoi and I go back five years. When this video was taken Sandy was three weeks old, and she and her mother were being kept restrained , away from the rest of the herd. This is as much for Sandy’s safety as it is for people. This camp once did elephant back rides and circus shows. Now elephants are only restrained in the evenings, which is necessary to keep them safe from surrounding villages and herbicides in crops. No one wants to see elephants on chains, but through international pressure, and tourist revenue, models are changing about how elephant ownership is being handled all across the region. Through support and clearly stating we want elephant welfare to be the top priority, we can improve the lives of all of these amazing animals, and hopefully baby Sandy will be one of the first of a generation of elephants that love being treated well, loved by her handler (which she already is) and free to live as wild and free a life as is possible for a semi-domesticated elephant in 21st Century South East Asia. #elephant #fyp #babyanimals #traveltiktok #baby #thailand #thailand🇹🇭