Elephants captured from the wild and sold into the tourism industry are trained using fear-based methods, such as Phajaan, which consists of weeks long processes of domination and abuse meant to break a young elephants spirit. 

Under Phajaan, elephants are bound with ropes and forced to spend traumatic hours upon hours shackled with heavy chains unable to move or lay down. These gentle babies are confined in tight wooden structures, starved, and brutally beaten with bullhooks and other tools by a rotating team of many men 24/7 until their spirit is crushed. This abuse continues their whole life to be reminded.

Due to the African elephant poaching crisis, with their parents slaughtered and used for ivory and meat, orphaned baby elephants are forced to wander alone, doomed to die.

Although poaching has been made illegal in many countries, ivory tusks are still desired and can be sold for an unbelievable amount of money. This leads to black market poaching still being a booming business in some parts of Africa. Poached elephants are killed, their tusks are removed, and their bodies are left to rot - a sad scene for those working hard to bring elephants back from the brink of extinction.

For years, humans have been encroaching on elephant habitats, destroying their homes and resources. Because of us, their natural habitats have almost been entirely wiped out.

Elephants are no longer able to roam as they once did to find the volume of food they need to survive. As a result, many of them are starving to death. As more of their natural areas continue to be depleted, they find themselves stuck trying to fight for the little resources they have left. Although they can travel long distances to find food, without nourishment they are left weak, destined to meet a heartbreaking fate.