Bangkok, Thailand..An elephants weaves through cars and pollution in Bangkok in search of food and donations as he begs for a living...Friends of the Asian Elephant, a non-profit organization that has established the world?s only elephant hospital in the Northern Thai province of Lampang. In the past 30 years Thailand?s wild elephant population has declined from 40,000 to 2,000 and the domesticated population has dropped from 11,000 to 3,000. As forests have been cut down the elephants?...
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Bangkok, Thailand..An elephants weaves through cars and pollution in Bangkok in search of food and donations as he begs for a living...Friends of the Asian Elephant, a non-profit organization that has established the world?s only elephant hospital in the Northern Thai province of Lampang. In the past 30 years Thailand?s wild elephant population has declined from 40,000 to 2,000 and the domesticated population has dropped from 11,000 to 3,000. As forests have been cut down the elephants? natural habitats have all but vanished. In the age of the car, the elephant is seen as old fashioned and unnecessary....All photographs ©2003 Stuart Isett.All rights reserved.This image may not be reproduced without expressed written permission from Stuart Isett.
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