Elephants Taken out of the Room
No new elephants should be placed in captivity and elephants currently in captivity should be rewilded, was the overwhelming conclusion of the Captive Elephant Indaba held in Hermanus last Friday.
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To ride or not to ride?
There seems to be an unsubstantiated belief that the training of the African elephant does not involve the same extremely cruel practices that are inflicted on its Asian cousin, so we debunk a few myths around elephant riding.
Read moreThe elephant in the room
The controversial practice of elephant riding is widely available in South Africa. There is a belief that training of African elephants does not involve the same kind of cruel practices as those inflicted on its Asian cousin.
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Green Girls in Africa 