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Shri G. Kishan Reddy is India’s Minister of Tourism. Ask his country to do more to protect its elephants, both wild and captive; and ask him to stop the horrific practice of Pajan. 

Email: kishanreddy.g@sansad.nic.in
Post: Room No. 301 Transport Bhawan, Parliament Street, New Delhi – 110001 INDIA

SUBJECT: Save the Asian Elephants

EXAMPLE EMAIL:

Dear Minister,

I am deeply concerned about the plight of the Asian elephant in India, both in the wild and in captivity. I am writing to ask the Indian government to do more to protect the species in the wild, to ensure India’s laws are properly enforced to end the use of brutal methods such as pajan on captive elephants in tourism and to encourage ethical sanctuaries where elephants are observed from a safe and respectful distance.

Asian elephants have been revered in Indian culture for centuries. But their numbers have collapsed and they are now designated by IUCN as highly endangered. Tourists across the world are becoming increasingly aware that to “train” elephants for tourism and other commercial exploitation, the vast majority are subjected to extreme horrific violence. Baby elephants are illegally snatched from the wild, isolated, immobilized, starved and subjected to intense beatings and stabbings to “break the spirits’ to terrify them into submission, the torture continuing routinely thereafter. See examples at www.stae.org/horrors.

Abused captive elephants also attack and kill tourists and are highly effective transmitters of deadly airborne viruses such as TB, SARS and, science now indicates, Covid 19.

There is also now extensive evidence of human trafficking involved in unethical elephant tourism.

We now know far more about the extraordinary intelligence, emotional sensitivity and rich social lives of the world’s largest land mammal. To brutalise and keep them hobbled and chained for long periods in cruel isolation, suffering foot diseases, and intense physical and psychological distress cannot be justified in the eyes of the world and is damaging to India’s international standing. The British Government’s Manifesto pledges to “support the Indian Government in its efforts to protect the Asian elephants”.

We urge the Indian Government to work closely with the British Government and Save The Asian Elephants to protect this ancient and now highly endangered species.

I look forward to your reply.

Yours faithfully

[YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS]

As High Commissioner for India, it is Gaitri Issar Kumar’s role to pass the concerns of the UK public back to the Indian government. Ask his country to do more to protect its elephants, both wild and captive; and to stop the horrific practice of pajan.

Email to: info.london@hcilondon.in and info.london@mea.gov.in
Post to: High Commissioner for India, India House, Aldwych, London WC2B 4NA.

SUBJECT: Save the Asian Elephants

EXAMPLE EMAIL:

Your Excellency,

I am deeply concerned about the plight of the Asian elephant in India, both in the wild and in captivity. I am writing to ask the Indian government to do more to protect the species in the wild, to ensure India’s laws are properly enforced to end the use of brutal methods such as pajan on captive elephants in tourism and to encourage ethical sanctuaries where elephants are observed from a safe and respectful distance.

Asian elephants have been revered in Indian culture for centuries. But their numbers have collapsed and they are now designated by IUCN as highly endangered. Tourists across the world are becoming increasingly aware that to “train” elephants for tourism and other commercial exploitation, the vast majority are subjected to extreme horrific violence. Baby elephants are illegally snatched from the wild, isolated, immobilized, starved and subjected to intense beatings and stabbings to “break the spirits’ to terrify them into submission, the torture continuing routinely thereafter. See examples at www.stae.org/horrors.

Abused captive elephants also attack and kill tourists and are highly effective transmitters of deadly airborne viruses such as TB, SARS and, science now indicates, Covid 19.

There is also now extensive evidence of human trafficking involved in unethical elephant tourism.

We now know far more about the extraordinary intelligence, emotional sensitivity and rich social lives of the world’s largest land mammal. To brutalise and keep them hobbled and chained for long periods in cruel isolation, suffering foot diseases, and intense physical and psychological distress cannot be justified in the eyes of the world and is damaging to India’s international standing. The British Government’s Manifesto pledges to “support the Indian Government in its efforts to protect the Asian elephants”.

We urge the Indian Government to work closely with the British Government and Save The Asian Elephants to protect this ancient and now highly endangered species.

I look forward to your reply.

Yours faithfully

[YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS]