A man was filmed walking alongside a tiger while holding its chain at the Tiger Kingdom in Phuket, Thailand, before it ...

A new undercover investigation of Thailand’s zoos shows abuse of tigers for tourist selfies is still “rampant”, a charity has said. While concerns about the treatment of big cats in the ...

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Thailand's animal tourism fuels the illicit trade, said Steve Galster, executive director of Freeland, a Bangkok-based group fighting human and wildlife trafficking.

In February, overall tourist arrivals in Thailand were down by 44 percent compared with a year earlier. Tourism has plunged even further in March with new limits on travel and activity. Tourism is ...

Wildlife officials discovered scores of dead tiger cubs while rescuing 137 tigers from a Buddhist temple last week, raising fears that other tourist attractions could be fronts for animal trafficking.

Travel for Wildlife zoologist Cristina Garcia said that the demand to ride elephants by tourists visiting Thailand underlies systematic abuse of the animals. The price of a young elephant has ...

For decades, mass tourism created hard conditions for these incredibly sensitive animals. At Phuket Elephant Sanctuary , many of their charges were injured while chained at tourist riding sites or ...

Separated from their mothers, jabbed with metal hooks, and sometimes deprived of food -- many Thai elephants are tamed by force before being sold to lucrative tourism sites increasingly advertised ...

But like thousands of other pachyderms around Thailand — and 200 in Surin Province alone — they had to return home with their owners when the pandemic devastated the country’s tourist ...