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This Student Travel Company Profits from Elephant Abuse—Urge It to Stop

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ICYDK, elephants can bathe themselves perfectly well— but student travel company Rustic Pathways is selling a cruel and dangerous elephant bathing experience just to make a profit. 😠 Students like you need to call the company out on its exploitation!

In their natural habitat, elephants spend their days socializing, swimming, and playing, but at sham elephant “sanctuaries” and other tourism facilities, they’re often torn away from their moms, chained, gouged with sharp objects, and forced into stressful interactions with the public. 😢 This takes a massive psychological and physical toll on these sensitive, intelligent animals and can quickly become dangerous. Tourists and handlers have been gored, injured, trampled, or even killed, including recently when a tourist was killed after an elephant panicked during a bathing encounter in Thailand.

A student travel company that profits from elephant abuse goes completely against our generation’s care for animals. More than 50 major companies, including Carnival Corporation, Royal Caribbean, Airbnb, Expedia, Tripadvisor, and Booking.com, have stopped selling experiences that exploit elephants—please urge Rustic Pathways to follow their lead! 🐘 💙

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Patrick

Ziemnik

Rustic Pathways

Message to {contact_data~firstName} {contact_data~lastName}:

I was disappointed to learn that Rustic Pathways is selling a travel program that exploits elephants for bathing interactions despite the overwhelming evidence that elephants endure physical and psychological abuse when used for tourist encounters.

Elephants naturally avoid humans, and no reputable facility would allow tourists to bathe or closely interact with them. The only way to force elephants to endure unwanted contact is to threaten them constantly with physical punishment. Baby elephants are taken from their mothers, beaten, deprived of food and water, and bound with ropes. They endure weeks of physical torture, emotional abuse, and loneliness until their spirits break, and they become fearful enough to obey their captors.

Rustic Pathways is risking its reputation by endorsing this cruelty. Please join top industry players, including Expedia, Tripadvisor, Booking.com, and others that have pledged not to offer exploitative and dangerous encounters with elephants by removing elephant bathing experiences from your offerings.

Sincerely,

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