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Do not utter nonsense. There is no training at all in this orphanage. Baby elephants were not born as a result of any breeding project. There is no such project. That is a total imagination or lie or you have been deceived by someone who has a vested interest.

There are a handful of male elephants with chains. Those chained elephants pass a kind of sexual period. They are aggressive during this period. Usually, elephants do not breed in captivity. But, in this orphanage elephants have babies. It shows that the elephants have new habitats due to the care and treatments they get. Some do not know how much the government spends on managing and maintaining these facilities. As Sri Lankans, we know the truth, But a few with some conflict of interest have spread baseless allegations and accusations against this humane project. Elephants in Sri Lankan culture are sacred animals. In Sri Lanka, capturing elephants is strictly prohibited and the such offense is among some offenses that the culprits will not get bail until the court case is finished. A few domesticated elephants are in Sri Lanka. Almost all of these elephants are now not used for any other work but only for cultural events such as taking the casket of the tooth relics of temples. They were captured 30/40 years ago before these laws were enacted. In the past, when I am around 10 years old (now I am 46 years old), I have seen elephants used for some works. But now elephants are not required for such works because there are enough heavy-duty types of machinery. I hope you get some information about the truth.

These elephants cannot be freed from their natural habitats because they were kept for a long time during the treatment process. Elephants who can be treated quickly are taken to another sanctuary in Udawalawa (The Udawalawe Elephant Transit Home also known as Udawalawa Ath Athuru Sewana), and they were integrated into their natural habitats after the treatments. Then they were monitored frequently to make sure whether such animals were able to adapt to the wild environment again. Radio collars were put around the neck of such elephants to monitor them. If there are injured elephants who can be treated in the wild, they were treated accordingly. There are many videos to show how such complex operations are undertaken in Sri Lanka. We love our elephants. Do not spread lies. If you do not know the facts take time to research them. But do not get deceived by the lies of the people with vested interests. Maybe you are one with vested interests.

@@ruwansampathd This is incorrect information. I witnessed two young elephants being trained in an extremely brutal manner. Both were kept extremely thin and made to run backwards and forwards all day, hooks were used and withholding of food used as punishment. This is not anything at all like positive reinforcement, using a positive gentle experience for the elephant. Besides this training, breeding and trading in elephants is not how orphanages work. Please do not further animal abuse by going near this facility, particularly do not go and watch the elephants being force bathed in the river for tourists, the elephants are terrified sad and depressed, this happens four five times a day. All calves there are born there, they are not orphans in any way what so ever. They have a long life of misery awaiting them with crude, cruel and archaic training methods using force, pain and starvation. As tourist we can change things, just think before you opt to go to this facility. There is a genuine orphanage in Sri Lanka as mentioned in my previous post. Don't pay to support animal abuse. Learn to recognise unhappy elephants. These elephants are confined and have no grass or trees to eat. They live in an area that is completely stripped of vegetation and punishments are used if they try and eat within a fenced off area in their enclosure that has a few green trees and plants. There are a few permanently chained elephants, these elephants are not necessarily in musth in fact some are indeed female. These elephants are also force bathed. Chaining elephants is extremely abusive, they often wear scars and sores on their legs from years and years, even lifetimes of being chained.

@@equestanton1017 Do not tell lies. When you said that "Both were kept extremely thin and made to run backward and forwards all day,...", I want to ask whether you were there all day. In Pinnawala Orphanage there are no elephant circuses, so there is no purpose for training them. Elephants are not traded at all in Sri Lanka. That is strictly prohibited by law and that is an offense without bail applicability. There is no breading project in the orphanage, all the newborn elephants are natural births. That shows they have adapted to the new habitat. Elephants do not mate in new environments. It is not required to breed elephants because their population is increasing despite there being a human-elephant conflict in rural agricultural areas. Sri Lanka is a hot country which is why elephants have to be taken to bathe. If the new baby elephants were born in the orphanage, they cannot be released to the wild because they are not used to it. The area available for the orphanage is 10 ha. So do not tell the area is without vegetation. You may have seen just the front end of the orphanage. The area is a dense coconut-grown area. Coconut leaves are the main food for elephants. Only a few elephants are chained, as anyone can see from videos. That is also not permanent but depends on the situation, as they can be aggressive sometimes during certain periods. If you have visited only two times, how can you say that the elephants are chained permanently? The elephant orphanage in Pinnawala and the elephant transit center in Udawalawa are run by the government. Thus, there is no point in abusing elephants only in one center. Both serve different purposes. Sri Lankans consider elephants sacred so if the elephants are abused by some institution, that will be a big issue in Sri Lanka. What you utter contradicts itself. You spread total lies with some agenda. We love our elephants more than any other person.

Agree 100%! We share this planet with other species and they have as much right to it as we do! Loved the teaser you shared and looking forward to the movie very much!