After decades of cruel elephant training, Bangladesh seeks new method

Mahout Joynal Abedin is trying to use non-cruel ways of taming a baby elephant after conservation officials rescued the calf from a training camp in a forest in Bangladesh, where the baby had been subject to brutal taming methods. Photo: dpa

An elephant's call of distress woke Tayef Ahmed one day and he headed out into the jungle to see what was happening.

Half a kilometre down a muddy trail, he found a makeshift shed and a young elephant calf whose legs were tied to logs.