Rescue Elephants Being Chained And Beaten For Tourism!

These elephants screamed in agony as they were chained and beaten. Add your name if you want to end this heartbreaking cruelty, NOW!

Wildlife photographer, Norman Watson, witnessed the torture firsthand at Bandhavgarh National Park in Madhya Pradesh, India, as the elephants were beaten ruthlessly with 5-foot long bamboo canes.

"The screams from the elephants when they were whipped put a shiver down my spine. They were in so much distress they were weeing themselves – while we were about 100 meters away, screaming for this to stop," he said.

"During one of the worst incidents we witnessed, we heard the elephant in distress really trumpeting. There were two young elephants, about five years old, with their legs chained so close together they were actually hopping while trying to get away from a mahout beating them with a bamboo pole.

"It escalated to one mahout pulling the elephants over with their tails while the other had a sharp hook over its ear. They rolled it onto its side and beat it for about 10 minutes, only stopping because he was exhausted swinging the bamboo pole."

Nothing deserves to be treated this way, least of all such magnificent, intelligent, emotional creatures as elephants.

Don't you want to stop this cruel, heartless practice of chaining and beating elephants?

Then add your name to demand that Giriraj Singh, Indian Minister of Animal Husbandry; and Dr. Thawar Chand Gehlot, Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment; shutdown these abusive operations now!