The Skinny Elephant

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Lessons from seals at sea

All skin and bones and severely malnourished, Lakshmi was exploited for begging and commercial use. Her bent knees and bony projections which are visibly clear indicate that she was a victim of prolonged malnourishment. The approx. 30-year-old ailing elephant was rescued from a lifetime of abuse and neglect in a joint operation by Wildlife SOS and the Madhya Pradesh Forest Department. She was then transferred for lifelong care under Wildlife SOS. Varner, G. E., and M. C. Monroe. “Ethical Perspectives on Captive Breeding: Is It for the Birds?” Endangered Species UPDATE 8, no. 1 (1990): 27–29. Greene, R. “Mammoth Proposal: An Elephant Reserve in Tehama County.” Red Bluff Daily News, December 6, 2013. http://www.redbluffdailynews.com/business/ci_24669207/mammoth-proposal-an-elephant-reserve-tehama-county. You’re smart and curious about the world. So are The Conversation’s authors and editors. You can get our highlights each weekend.] In 2005, BEC joined a wildlife conservation programme run by the Ministry of Forestry that entrusts privately-owned zoos and safari parks in Indonesia with the care of critically endangered Sumatran elephants. Elephants at BEC were found to be just ‘skin and bones’ after the coronavirus pandemic forced the park to close [Supplied]

Santosa says BEC was given two months to find new investors and restructure the business, during which Hass’s NGO, the Jakarta Aid Network, fed their elephants and paid the keepers’ wages. A bit about the album... I was fascinated by the concept of ‘truth’ and intrigued by the concept of everyone having a different version of their truth... a personal viewpoint, their own narrative, their own story. The title plays a bit with shades of meaning - a ‘counter positioning’ if you like. The ‘other stories’ may challenge the truth, but ‘the truth’ retains that sense of the absolute. In the songs I hope to present the realities of different characters through short stories. Over time and through the pandemic however, different stories came to light and sometimes the focus would shift. Ultimately though, I have been living with these stories and these characters for some time now. Zachariah, A., J. C. Zong, S. Y. Long, E. M. Latimer, S. Y. Heaggans, L. K. Richman, G. S. Hayward. “Fatal Herpes Hemmorhagic Disease in Wild and Orphan Asian Elephants in Southern India.” Journal of Wildlife Diseases 49 (2013): 381–93.

Government support

Haas says all of these problems were created by demand from tourists for elephant rides: “That one ride, that one selfie, it means a life sentence for these animals and now that Covid has hit it’s even worse because no more money is coming in and some elephants are starving.”