RE: Days 22-23: Frozen Lake in the Gobi Desert
I feel bad for those camels, they could at least have a longer rope. It reminds me of this one thing I heard some people do with elephants, when elephants are babies and are going to be used to carry things (or some use that would require them being tied every now and then) they have a strong, metal, hand cuff-like object on the elephant's leg that's attached to a strong pull. The elephant babies pull and rub their skin raw to (unsuccessfully) try to escape. When their older and stop trying to escape, their tied with twine to a stick because if they feel a pull of resistance, they'll give up, because they weren't able to before. That's what the picture of the camels' situation reminded me of.
I don't know what can be done to stop it, but refusing to pay to ride on camels that are treated like that will probably work if everyone else does the same.
I don't think that will do it because most people have already prepaid to ride them, so if they refuse to ride the camels they will still have prepaid for that camel's environment (being tied to that rope) plus, to be real, all people refusing camel rides will never happen. That's what happens all over the world with the abuse of animals, ecosystems, poor humans, almost everything. And that's why I said that if you want real change you have to think bigger. See this book to get a better idea if it's really something that interests you: https://www.tromsite.com/2016/03/money-game-beyond/