
Elephant Tourism in Nepal
Historical Perspectives, Current Health and Welfare Challenges, and Future Directions
- 248 pages
- English
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Elephant Tourism in Nepal
Historical Perspectives, Current Health and Welfare Challenges, and Future Directions
About this book
A study of elephant tourism in Nepal from its origins in the 1960s to the present day, this book examines the challenges faced by captive elephants. Used as human conveyance, on anti-poaching patrol teams, as rescue vehicles, and in forestry service, elephants have worked with and for humans for hundreds of years. However, the use of elephants in tourism is a fairly new development within Nepal. Because the health and welfare of tourism elephants is vital to the conservation of wild individuals, this book offers an assessment of captive elephant needs and an examination of their existing welfare statuses.Numerous NGOS and INGOs are now active in elephant lives, and numerous advocacy organizations have arisen with the goal of changing tourism practices and improving captive elephant welfare.This book seeks to examine the motivations of these NGOs and INGOs, and to consider their ethical approaches to elephant health and welfare. Are the motivations of these organizations similar enough to work together towards a common goal, or are their ethical norms so different that they get in one another's way? Using an ordinary language and ethics framework, this text aims to identify the norms of cultures and organisations and reframe them in ways which may allow for more successful interactions.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Halftitle
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Elephants in Nepalese History
- 2 Theories of Language, Words, and Ethics: Frameworks and Methods
- 3 Ethics, Care, and Commodification
- 4 The Advent of Elephant Tourism in Nepal
- 5 Measuring Elephant Health and Welfare
- 6 Elephants Working in Conservation Practice
- 7 Privately ‘Owned’ Tourism Elephants
- 8 Non-Governmental Agencies and Their Effects on Elephant Care
- 9.1 An International Non-Governmental Organization Case Study
- 9.2 Biographies of Captive Hatti (Elephants)
- 10 Hattisar Assessments and the Way Forward
- 11 Conclusions
- Appendix I: Management Systems and Their Effects on Health and Welfare
- Appendix II: Elephants in Asia
- Index
- Backcover