Blind Abused Elephant Spent 40 Years Panhandling for Owner, Is Now Finally Rescued

Courtesy of Wildlife SOS

A blind Asian elephant named Karma has spent decades as a panhandling elephant in a village near Hamirpur in Uttar Pradesh, India. She was eventually freed from bondage, however, and found her way to a sanctuary in northern India, where she now thrives.

The elephant in her late forties had once had to perform an exhausting routine to make money for her handlers. “Prior to her rescue,” Kartick Satyanarayan, co-founder and CEO of Wildlife SOS, told The Epoch Times, “Karma’s exhausting routine included walking on hot tarmac roads for hours at a stretch, begging for alms for her owner.”