Story Title: Patara Elephant Farm
Episode: 5
Broadcast Date: Saturday 21 December 2013
Presenter: Kim Syrus

As elephant populations become more threatened and less protected Elephant Tourism is becoming a more controversial issue in all of Asia. Patara Elephant Farm is rated the number 1 Chiang Mai attraction and their primary mission of a health, breeding, longevity and re-introduction into the wild program for the elephants demonstrates why.
Elephant Conservation

• Patara Elephant Farm is a Thai owned and managed farm focusing on health-care and breeding management for friendly, beautiful and special elephants to produce healthy elephants to live on Earth.
• "Elephant Owner for a Day" is a special program created for everyone to learn and interact with elephants as an owner would do daily. You learn to approach your elephant correctly, know the elephant's temperament, feed and check its health, how to bathe and brush it in the river, learn how to ride on its neck, and communicate through different spoken commands.
• The command “Bon!” to an elephant means she is to lift up her trunk for you to put food in her mouth.
• In Thailand the elephant is the sacred animal of the kings.
• Thai’s believe that touching an elephant just once can bring a person good luck.
• For more information on visiting Thailand click here