Lalee Penguin 🇺🇦

When I know better I do better.
X is useful for sports and animals, not necessarily in that order.

[Lalee Penguin 🇺🇦 @LaleePenguin]

Way to go! More countries please!

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Indonesia has banned elephant rides nationwide. It's the first country in Asia to do so.

Wild elephants aren't naturally inclined to carry people. Making them willing to do it requires a training process called phajaan, or "spirit breaking," in which young elephants, often taken from their mothers, are confined, restrained, and subjected to physical and psychological stress until they comply.

Investigations across Southeast Asia have documented this process at facilities that market themselves as conservation centers. The breaking happens off-camera, and the compliant elephant is what tourists see.

The ride itself puts significant stress on an elephant's spine. Elephant spines aren't structured to support weight. The howdah, the wooden or metal chair used for rides, concentrates that load further. Chronic musculoskeletal injuries have been documented at ride facilities across Asia.

Between rides, many elephants spend the majority of their time chained. The stereotypic swaying behavior visible at tourist facilities, repetitive, rhythmic, side to side, doesn't occur in wild elephants. Ethologists classify it as a stress response to captivity and confinement.

Thailand still has nearly 3,000 elephants in tourism venues. A 2025 welfare report found two-thirds of them living in conditions that researchers described as poor to severely inadequate.

Indonesia's ban won't fix any of that. But it's the first government in the region to draw the line.

[Lalee Penguin 🇺🇦 @LaleePenguin]

@sny_knicks He's suffered losses, his mom being the biggest one of all. He is fully aware of his blessings. Just feeling happy in the moment.

[Lalee Penguin 🇺🇦 @LaleePenguin]

@johnbulmer Stunning!

[World Animal Protection ANZ @MoveTheWorldAU]

For many years, Nico, Jeni and Joni have lived in some of the cruellest conditions.

Please share this post to boost our chances of giving them the life they deserve.

📍 #BakasAdventurePark

📸 Footage from 2018, 2023 and 2026.
📹: World Animal Protection / Andito Wasi

[Lalee Penguin 🇺🇦 @LaleePenguin]

This elephant has been suffering for years. Please sign the petition to the USDA to confiscate her!

[Voices for Asian Elephants (VFAE) 🐘 @vfaes_org]

🚨 SHE IS SUFFERING🚨

Betty the elephant is in pain. Even the United States Department of Agriculture has cited her owner for causing harm.

Demand: CONFISCATE BETTY NOW. https://t.co/onk1JWHq6m

Support Traveling Exotic Animal Public Safety Protection Act to end this cruelty.

[Louise @loulou750]

🔴✍️✍️✍️✍️ https://t.co/evLD9RNxkr

[Anika 🐘🦍🦧🦒🇨🇦🇵🇰 @anikasleem]

Save Betty NOW Urgent Medical Attention & Desperately needs be sent to a Sanctuary

https://t.co/YNQzichJ1V

[PROTECT ALL WILDLIFE @Protect_Wldlife]

Petition: A forever home awaits ... We must Save the Jersey 51!

Following the closure of Blanc Pignon Dairy Farm in Jersey, we are calling on its Director, Alice Le Cras, to rehome their 51 cows to Hillside Animal Sanctuary.

Add your name today and help save these beautiful cows.

✍️ Sign At: https://t.co/ZCe0xedH9D

@PeterEgan6 @HillsideAnimals

[Save The Asian Elephants @stae_elephants]

When going on holiday make sure you are not supporting cruel animal venues, where unnatural tricks and enforced by threats and brutality.

[Lalee Penguin 🇺🇦 @LaleePenguin]

@ChefReactions ❤️ your work ❤️ sports! Keep it up!

[Laura Miers @LauraMiers]

It’s a CHRISTMAS MIRACLE! The appeal worked, insurance is covering my GI drug. This is a huge victory. I just got the call. I am so relieved, oh my goodness. I was so worried for a while there. I guess they REALLY don’t want to pay for an ileostomy…

[Lalee Penguin 🇺🇦 @LaleePenguin]

Please do an Annual Fundraiser (like an hours long live shot from Happy Doggo) showcasing all the lovely dogs you have saved. Without the run! I believe people are willing to help. Not necessary to put yourself in such mental and physical pain!

[Niall Harbison @NiallHarbison]

Slightly longer watch but if you like what I share this is super important because YOU made it possible.

🐶 Explains how we'll stop 100,000 puppies being born in 2025 on this one project alone

🏃 This is what the marathon funded

2⃣3⃣ $250,000 raised for this and we got it live in just 23 days from the end of the race.

This isn't a cute rescue or a cuddly puppy but this is how we change the global street dog issue. To anybody who supports I'm very thankful and all I can do to show thanks is how quick we deploy that money to help dogs

[Lalee Penguin 🇺🇦 @LaleePenguin]

@WalkinRobinL @Friesein Try the Niagara Falls area Walmarts. A Walmart in the Capital Region verified they just received a shipment.

[Lalee Penguin 🇺🇦 @LaleePenguin]

@ChefReactions Happy to see you back here! Go Bills!

[Lara A. Anderson 🇺🇸(TeamLucy)🇺🇸 @LaraAAnderson1]

Petition update · Betty is now 55 and still exploited by the circus. · https://t.co/Z1Qem75fde · https://t.co/Z1Qem75fde
🐘🐘 #Betty #Janice
Petition https://t.co/6XIF79ufZC

[Janet ⓥ 🔥💧🐋🐬🐳🐨🦘🌱 @lilacjay2]

2.

plenty of space to roam with other rescued elephants. Most importantly... She will be free!”

You can help rescue Patty by donating to her gofundme: https://t.co/epJ8hRh2eN

Original post on Instagram where you can also donate: https://t.co/suzoWo7jK2
… /3.

[Lalee Penguin 🇺🇦 @LaleePenguin]

@CitysFElephants Unconscionable way to treat elephants in their native land. So distressing!

[Compassion in World Farming US @ciwfusa]

Could New York join California and Washington as the next state to ban octopus farming?!

Senate Bill S7421 would prohibit the practice, protecting octopuses from cruel conditions and leaving them to thrive in the wild, where they belong.🐙

[Lalee Penguin 🇺🇦 @LaleePenguin]

Exactly where these elephants need to be, retired from public life and returned to a natural setting!

[Lara A. Anderson 🇺🇸(TeamLucy)🇺🇸 @LaraAAnderson1]

Community celebrates elephants Mikki and Punch as they prepare to leave Louisville Zoo
Shared via the Google app https://t.co/YbSeB9BH79

[Lalee Penguin 🇺🇦 @LaleePenguin]

Incredibly sad to treat a majestic creature, part of a ceremonial worship, in this manner.

[Louisa Pearson @louisa1000]

Breaking news:

Karuvanthala ganapathy aged 25 is the 4th captive elephant killed at the Kerala festival, in Kerala this year.

Starved, over-worked, dehydrated and beatings were the reason for its tortured death.