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Elephant polo follows woolly mammoths toward extinction

December 27, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

Scheduled at only one place,  for just four days, in 2018             BANGKOK,  Thailand––Elephant polo might in theory stagger on for years or even decades after the four-day 2018 King’s Cup Elephant Polo Tournament––if the last tournament host,  Anantara Hotels & Resorts,  remains willing to pour promotional effort into it and mahouts have elephants to […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Bhutan, Nepal, Tibet, Culture & Animals, Elephants, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, India, Indian subcontinent, Organizations, Southeast Asia, Sports, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Wildlife, Working animals Tagged With: Geoffrey Dobbs, James Manclark, Jim Edwards, Mark Shand, Merritt Clifton, Naomi Campbell, Naresh Kadyan

Elephant polo ends in Jaipur, but elephant use & abuse in tourism continue

January 10, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

From Azam Siddiqui,  New Delhi,  India: I have immense joy in sharing the news that elephant polo organizers have pledged not to hold elephant polo matches in the state of Rajasthan, India. Reported Rachna Singh for the Times of India on January 9, 2015, “Tour operators are now informing the foreign agents not to book […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Cultural, Culture & Animals, Elephants, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Middle Left, India, Indian subcontinent, Letters, Opinions & Letters, Other entertainment topics, Wildlife, Working animals Tagged With: Amber Fort, Azam Siddiqui, Christine Townend, elephant polo, Help In Suffering, Jaipur, Mark Shand

Elephant Family founder Mark Shand, 62

April 26, 2014 By Merritt Clifton

            Mark Shand, 62, died on April 23, 2014 from a head injury suffered in a fall when he reportedly tried to re-enter a New York City bar through a revolving door, after smoking a cigarette outside. Shand,  the younger brother of British Prince Charles’ wife Camilla Parker Bowles, was author of the 1992 British […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Book & film reviews, Culture & Animals, Elephants, India, Indian subcontinent, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Organizations, Wildlife Tagged With: Help In Suffering, Mark Shand, Merritt Clifton, Parbati Barua

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