Warning: This article includes content some readers may find disturbing Looking aged and beyond her years, Mae Mai, a 30-year-old elephant, still bears the scars of her crippling former life as a logging elephant. Rescued by a nonprofit in Thailand, she is both emblematic of an ongoing crisis and a beacon of hope for others as she recovers in safe surrounds. “Before [COVID-19] she was full-bodied and healthier,” the nonprofit Gentle Giants Stay Home Project explained. “But when [COVID-19] hit, she was sent to the logging industry. “She’s now broken. Literally broken,” they continued. “Her leg shattered, her soul crushed. Mae Mai has just been standing there waiting for death to come.” A team from Save Elephant Foundation (SEF), a nonprofit dedicated to the welfare of Asian elephants, intervened before time ran out. They arranged to seize custody of the ailing elephant and offer her safe refuge to recover at their Elephant …