In the northeastern village of Ban Ta Klang in Thailand, Siriporn Sapmak starts her day by doing a livestream of her two elephants on social media to raise money to survive. The 23-year old, who has been taking care of elephants since she was in school, points her phone to the animals as she feeds them bananas and they walk around the back of her family home. Siriporn says she can raise about 1,000 baht ($27.46) of donations from several hours of livestreaming on TikTok and YouTube but that is only enough to feed her two elephants for one day. Baby elephant Pangmaemae Plainamo, along with her mother and a mahout, are live-streamed on social media at Ba Ta Klang village in Surin, Thailand April 8, 2022. Live-streaming is a new - and insecure - source of income for elephant owners,...
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