Often tasked with finding water for their families, they act almost as beasts of burden, carrying water vast distances.
Sek Wannamethee, a foreign ministry spokesman, said Thailand had other specific regulations that promote the welfare of elephants, including a beasts of burden act and the tourism department's guidelines for elephant camp management.
The Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) has been captive in Thailand for approximately 4000 years, and is classified as a working animal under the Beast of Burden Act of 1939 [ 1– 5].
Stigma acts as an added level of burden that inhibits prevention, care, and treatment.
Called Pool Re, it is a reinsurance pool, modeled after similar ones in Europe, that makes the federal government the insurer of last resort in acts of terrorism, lifting the burden of excessive payments from the industry.
One detects feeling that, having skewered the public in so many other ways, the least the snotty rich can do is to allow those they see as their beasts of burden to act like the animals they perceive them to be, once in a while.
It is true, however, that if the Supreme Court strikes down all or part of the Affordable Care Act, the burden of figuring out how fix the American health care system should by rights shift to the Republican Party.
