'After the Forests: Thailand's Captive Elephants and Their People' by Nikki Savvides. Source: Vivid Publishing, used with permission. Elephants are magnificent sentient beings with legendary memories ...

In the last century, Thailand has lost roughly 92 percent of its elephant population. Factors such as illegal wildlife trade, deforestation, and human-animal conflict have led the Asian elephant to ...

If you ever get an opportunity to go to Thailand, chances are you'll come home with a souvenir with the country's national animal on it…the Asian elephant. Elephants are more than a point of pride in ...

Thailand's most revered animal — the wild Asian elephant — has now become one of the country's biggest problems. Decades of deforestation and overdevelopment of natural habitat is pushing wild ...

In the northeastern village of Ban Ta Klang in Thailand, Siriporn Sapmak starts her day by doing a livestream of her two elephants on social media to raise money to survive. The 23-year old, who has ...

In this Thursday, Aug. 18, 2016 photo, a herd of wild elephants cross a dirt road in Pana, southeastern province of Chanthaburi, Thailand. To stop wild elephants rampaging through their crops, farmers ...

CHONBURI, Thailand, March 13 (Reuters) - Thailand celebrated National Elephant Day on Monday, honouring the beast that is a beloved symbol of the country with feasts of fruits and vegetables. Thailand ...

Shocking comparison photographs provided by Wildlife Friends Foundation Thailand show how an elephant's back can become visibly damaged by a lifetime of carrying tourists Wildlife Friends Foundation ...

BANGKOK -- Flash floods swept through a popular elephant sanctuary in northern Thailand on Thursday, forcing the evacuation of about 100 elephants and trapping dozens of tourists, amid urgent pleas ...

A well-known elephant sanctuary in Thailand appealed for help on Friday after torrential flash floods forced the evacuation of about 100 elephants. Videos and pictures released by Elephant Nature Park ...

Thailand’s elephants are well known, and I recently had the pleasure of reading Dr. Nikki Savvides’s new book, After the Forests: Thailand’s Captive Elephants and Their People, which meticulously ...