Geo: 19.8841, 102.142Susie's week Elephant Nature Park is an elephant rescue and rehabilitation centre in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Their sole aim is to provide a better life for elephants that have suffered under the hand of humans that use elephants as slaves in the logging industry, entertainment in circuses, transport and entertainment in the tourism industry and for begging in the streets. As a part of the volunteering week the park showed us some videos that truely represent what these poor animals go through. To put it lightly, babies are taken from their mothers at a very young age, tied into a cage and tortured for 4 to 7 days, even more depending on how compliant they are. The reason for this is so that they literally beat the spirit out of them. What is left
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