{"id":26215,"date":"2020-12-31T12:00:28","date_gmt":"2020-12-31T03:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/31\/how-covid-has-plunged-asias-captive-elephants-into-fresh-crisis"},"modified":"2020-12-31T12:00:28","modified_gmt":"2020-12-31T03:00:28","slug":"how-covid-has-plunged-asias-captive-elephants-into-fresh-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=26215","title":{"rendered":"How Covid has plunged Asia&#8217;s captive elephants into fresh crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stripped of tourism money, keepers in India and Thailand are struggling to keep their elephants alive <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It has been a tough year for many, and for the elephants at Elefanjoy sanctuary in Jaipur, India, it has been no exception. As the pandemic hit in March, the country imposed a strict nationwide lockdown, and the sanctuary\u2019s dozens of elephants could no longer take their 30-mile daily walks, vital for stretching their legs and aiding digestion. <\/p>\n<p>Health problems began to set in, worsened by a glum mood that beset human and other animal inhabitants of the sanctuary.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/31\/how-covid-has-plunged-asias-captive-elephants-into-fresh-crisis\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stripped of tourism money, keepers in India and Thailand are struggling to keep their elephants alive Coronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageIt has been a tough year for many, and for the elephants at Elefanjoy sanctuary in Jaipur,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1775,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[586,265,41,65,62,61,93,94,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animal-welfare","category-animals","category-asia-pacific","category-environment","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-thailand","category-wildlife","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1775"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26217,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26215\/revisions\/26217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}