COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Veterinarians are preparing to airlift an Asian elephant from Sri Lanka back to its home country of Thailand this weekend after it spent more than two decades at a Buddhist ...

An ailing elephant in Sri Lanka has returned home to Thailand for medical treatment following allegations that the elephant was in bad health due to years of abuse and hard labor.

Temples and wealthy families often own the animals and rent them out for such events. ... Sri Lanka has about 6,000 elephants, but those in the wild are threatened by habitat loss and degradation.

Sri Lanka's most sacred elephant passed away at the age of 68 on Monday, ... a charge denied by temples and owners of domesticated elephants. More from CBS News.

Animal rights campaigners have called on tourists in Sri Lanka to boycott elephant attractions after photographs of a malnourished female used in a festival were circulated online.

The Thai royal family gave the elephant as a gift in 2001 to Sri Lanka’s government, which in turn gifted it to the temple where it was named Muthu Raja and given honored roles in religious ...

Animal rights campaigners have called on tourists in Sri Lanka to boycott elephant attractions ... 2019 elephants decorated for the "Esala Perahera" festival are led past the Buddhist temple of ...