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Thai elephants, out of work due to coronavirus, return home to natural environment

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BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand elephants are returning home to the wild after being “laid off” thanks to the coronavirus pandemic. The millions of unemployed in Thailand due to COVID-19 include elephants dependent on tourists to feed their voracious appetites.

With scant numbers of foreign visitors, commercial elephant camps and sanctuaries lack funds for their upkeep and have sent more than 100 of the animals trudging as far as 150 kilometres back to their homes.

The Save Elephant Foundation in the northern province of Chiang Mai has been promoting the elephants’ return to the greener pastures of home.

The foundation supports fundraising appeals to feed animals still housed at tourist parks, but also believes it is good for them to return to

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