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mahout-training schools, with more concern for the animals' health and welfare. We get
many readers' letters ranging from impassioned condemnation of elephant domestication
to more practical requests for determining which camps treat their elephants kindly. Based
on our interviews and observations, we see elephant tourism as one of the most practical
ways to ensure that the 3200 domesticated elephants living in Thailand can live a 'good'
life: meaning that they are social, well fed and receive daily health assessments as well as
periodic veterinary check-ups. We encourage our readers to exercise their collective con-
sumer will to hold the industry to the highest standards possible.
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