Thailand’s elephants face threats from human settlement and even tourism. Here’s what Chiang Mai’s Elephant Nature Park is doing about it.

She is a veterinary nurse from Australia who later flew up to Chiang Mai to volunteer at the Elephant Nature Park. It is from her that I first learned about the cruelty many elephants endure.

Flop! There it was again. The rubbery, pink tip of a prehensile appendage wiggling demandingly at us. The two nostrils flared and expelled hot air. The elephant we were riding had come to a halt ...

Footage captured at the Tiemchan Elephant Camp in Chiang Mai shows six-year-old female elephant Valentine let her two canine friends, Hiccup and Maa, sit on her back for a tandem ride.

Chiang Mai park Maesa Elephant Camp temporarily closed down on Thursday amid the COVID-19 recommendations from local government. The park shared the news in a Facebook post, written in Thai, that ...

That’s where Elephant Nature Park comes in. Located about 37 miles (60 kilometers) from Chiang Mai, the park has rescued more than 200 elephants from the tourism and logging industries since its ...