The elephant in the room

Many in Sauraha are selling their elephants meant for safaris to Indian buyers due to Covid-19 fuelled crisis. Now there are legal issues that no one talked about before.

Nearly four years ago, a tourism entrepreneur from Sauraha in Chitwan, bought an elephant to offer elephant safari to visitors. Elephant safari is one of the major tourist activities in Sauraha—one of the major hubs for wildlife tourism in the country.