Laos rests in Southeast Asia on the border of Vietnam, Thailand, and Cambodia. It is landlocked, and critics around the world have labeled its form of government everything from a brutal regime to “one of the worst on Earth.” Other factors are also clogging Laos’s movement toward peace. For starters, Laos was once named “The Land of a Million Elephants.” The Mighty Elephant is the largest four-legged mammal on Earth. However, they are a species that falls under a scope-lens for poachers and slaughterers. The poachers target the ivory tusks of elephants, and the slaughterers kill them off for coming too close to farm land or invading territory. One difficulty that arises is when they kill the mother elephant and leave the baby elephants on their own. Without the mother, all of sudden one casualty turns into two. A quick google image search can produce elegant and royal depictions of the Laotian elephants. These are strong beautiful creatures of nature, yet in the labeled “Land of a Mill...
