admin, Author at Anne Pinto-Rodrigues https://annepintorodrigues.com/author/admin/ Writer. Photographer. Storyteller. Thu, 16 Aug 2018 11:36:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 A new life for abused elephants at Wildlife SOS, India https://annepintorodrigues.com/2018/01/21/a-new-life-for-abused-elephants-at-wildlife-sos-india/ https://annepintorodrigues.com/2018/01/21/a-new-life-for-abused-elephants-at-wildlife-sos-india/#comments Sun, 21 Jan 2018 22:43:16 +0000 https://annepintorodrigues.com/?p=696 Think back to the last time you had a paper cut. Painful, right?! Or got punched in the face by a bully. Now imagine a lifetime of such pain and abuse – relentless, day in day out, and a million times worse. That is the life of a captive elephant. So while that elephant ride may seem innocuous, the reality behind how the elephant got there, is anything but. Some of the tools used by handlers to control elephants Taken from the wild at a very young age, tortured into submission by a horrendous ‘breaking of the spirit’ process (which […]

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]]> https://annepintorodrigues.com/2018/01/21/a-new-life-for-abused-elephants-at-wildlife-sos-india/feed/ 1 696 An Experience of Rural India in Dehene, Maharashtra https://annepintorodrigues.com/2017/09/02/an-experience-of-rural-india-in-dehene-maharashtra/ https://annepintorodrigues.com/2017/09/02/an-experience-of-rural-india-in-dehene-maharashtra/#respond Sat, 02 Sep 2017 14:35:56 +0000 https://annepintorodrigues.com/?p=748 My Dehene village guide, Raksha, is a remarkable young girl in her late teens. She could barely contain her excitement as she led me to the spot outside the village, where peafowls from the nearby forest aggregate every morning. Knowing my interest in birds, she affirms, that would have been ‘the’ spectacle to witness! Rural experiences like these, have been made possible by a Mumbai-based social enterprise and responsible travel company – Grassroutes. Dehene is one of several villages that Grassroutes works with as part of their rural tourism program. A mist-covered section of the Western Ghats, as seen from Dehene Rice fields An […]

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