- Stay informed- don’t visit places that offer elephant rides. Don’t support this evil industry. Inform your travel agent & your local guides about your preference.
- Share your opinion- be vocal and object strongly. Warn your friends, colleagues and contacts about why it is important to avoid riding elephants. Spreading awareness is the key to reducing exploitation and abuse of animals.
- Write to travel magazines, guidebooks, tour operators and travel agents to discourage them from offering elephant rides to tourists.
- Write to the local tourism department and the parks you visit expressing your disdain for elephant riding and request them politely that they take steps to put an end to it.
Encourage and support only responsible tourism projects, which do not offer elephant rides and are reputed conservation centres, sanctuaries, national parks and wildlife reserves- where tourists and animal lovers are educated about these special creatures in a conducive space that is safe for everyone involved.
