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| ELEPHANT AND TOURISM Prof. Dr. Jacob V. Cheeran Elephant is the most attractive animal in the world. In spite of, elephant not being in anyway, the most beautiful animal or bird in the world. Why? The answer is simple. To be attractive is more to be responsive than being beautiful. That is what elephant is and hence the most attractive and even most admired animal in the world. The world’s largest terrestrial animal deserves it too. Elephant is a big crowd puller in institutions like zoos, temples. Many elephant range countries attracts tourists because of elephant. Interestingly it is worth knowing that zoo in Alaska has an elephant and a public interest petition wanted the animal to be removed to a place, which is having a more agreeable climate for elephant. But zoo fought the case and won! They promised to provide a treadmill for the animal during the winter. But their attempt to make the elephant to tread on the treadmill was a dismal failure. Recently Sydney and Melbourne zoos wanted to get some elephant calves to Australia from Thailand under the guise of conservation and it was severely fought against. In this connection the author had to go to Thailand and Australia to testify but the problem is not yet resolved completely. Why this introduction? It is only to make the average elephant owner about the potential of captive elephants and to make use of elephant to attract tourists. I am sure that this will give the elephant much more humane and enjoyable living and better income for the elephant owner. This is what happened in a large scale in Thailand. The country banned forest tree felling and all of a sudden nearly 2000 elephants became unemployed. Many in Kerala may not know the unemployment problem of elephants in Assam, which are nearly 1500. This is true with many other northeastern states, hence a large-scale sale of elephants from those states to Kerala. This is true with Andaman Nicobar islands too. Next |
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