ADI Watchlist: Lars Holscher, Elephant trainer

ADI’s Watch List aims to keep evidence of abuse by animal trainers and others in the public eye, even if they change the names of animals and move to different countries. Elephant trainer Lars Holscher was exposed by ADI who secretly filmed the casual abuse of elephants, forcing a lame elephant to perform, chaining the elephants for 11 hours a day whilst concealing it from the public. Since this footage in 2009, two of the elephants, Sonja and Dehli have died, but Holscher continues to tour with lonely Va