Elephant Welfare in Thailand | How KSES is Bringing Elephants Home | Kerri McCrea

The Altruistic Traveller Podcast

Content provided by The Altruistic Traveller. All podcast content including episodes, graphics, and podcast descriptions are uploaded and provided directly by The Altruistic Traveller or their podcast platform partner. If you believe someone is using your copyrighted work without your permission, you can follow the process outlined here https://player.fm/legal.

4+ y ago 26:07

MP3•Episode home

Archived series ("Inactive feed" status)

When? This feed was archived on August 04, 2020 20:12 (3+ y ago). Last successful fetch was on March 10, 2020 13:38 (4y ago)

Why? Inactive feed status. Our servers were unable to retrieve a valid podcast feed for a sustained period.

What now? You might be able to find a more up-to-date version using the search function. This series will no longer be checked for updates. If you believe this to be in error, please check if the publisher's feed link below is valid and contact support to request the feed be restored or if you have any other concerns about this.

Kindred Spirit Elephant Sanctuary (KSES) is a non-profit organisation in Northern Thailand working closely with local communities to bring elephants home to the forest.

Elephant welfare in Thailand and Southeast Asia has been compromised since the demand for tourism, partnered with loss of natural habitat, saw an increase in the number of elephants used in domestic services. There are now over 4000 captive elephants in Thailand and less than 1000 in the wild.

This week, I spoke with Kerri McCrea, co-founder of KSES, about the plight of the endangered Asian elephant and how sanctuaries, like KSES, aim to rescue elephants from the poor conditions of tourists camps and bring them back to their natural habitat.

We spoke about the complexities of the welfare surrounding these intelligent creatures; how there is not enough natural habitat for wild elephants to thrive in Thailand. Kerri explains the importance of bringing elephants home to live as normal lives as possible and offers advice to tourists on how to support elephant welfare in Thailand.

For more information about KSES visit: https://kselephantsanctuary.com/

To join the Biosphere Expedition Thailand elephant research project visit: https://www.biosphere-expeditions.org/volunteeringinthailand

For previous elephant research reports visit: https://www.biosphere-expeditions.org/images/stories/pdfs/reports/report-thailand18.pdf

24 episodes

#Society #Altruistic Traveller