Elephants, Thailand's national animal, have seen their wild population decline in recent decades due to threats from tourism, logging, poaching and human encroachment on elephant habitats.
Oct 5, 2024
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Are there still wild elephants in Thailand?
Thailand is home to approximately 15% of the 52,000 Asian elephants currently living in the wild. Asian elephants are an endangered species, and between 3100 and 3600 can be found in 69 protected areas in Thailand.
Mar 20, 2024
What happened to the elephants that were walking across China?
In March 2020, the "short-nose family" left a forest nature reserve in Xishuangbanna and trekked about 500 km northwards to the provincial capital Kunming, finally arriving in June 2021. They have since headed south again, making a safe return to the nature reserve.
Can you still ride elephants in Thailand?
Elephant riding is still popular and legal in Thailand despite being proven harmful and unethical. Demand for it has lessened but has yet to disappear.
Why are elephants endangered in Thailand?
Threats to wild elephants in Thailand are the same as other nations: habitat loss and degradation due to the increasing human population density and agricultural encroachment.
Oct 4, 2024 · Authorities and conservationists are rushing to rescue elephants, pigs and buffaloes from flash flooding in Thailand's northern Chiang Mai province.
Mar 20, 2024 · Asian elephants are an endangered species, and between 3100 and 3600 can be found in 69 protected areas in Thailand. How many captive elephants ...
Oct 5, 2024 · The flooding decimated multiple structures that are critical for maintaining the elephants, such as their food storage supply and preparation ...
Oct 13, 2024 · A flash flood last week forced the Elephant Nature Park, the biggest sanctuary in the district, to evacuate its 126 elephants, as well as ...
Oct 8, 2024 · The Elephant Nature Park that all westerns love as it serve and increase your humanity is actually the reason why elephant died during the flooding in Chiang ...
Oct 5, 2024 · Rescue efforts are underway after the floodwaters overran an elephant sanctuary.
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By 2017 the number of captive elephants had risen to an estimated 3,783. ... The elephant became an endangered species in Thailand in 1986. Elephants in ...
Oct 4, 2024 · A renowned elephant sanctuary in northern Thailand was flooded by torrential monsoon rains and the remnants of tropical cyclones.
Oct 9, 2024 · Two elephants have died after a sanctuary was flooded in the northern Thailand city of Chiang Mai. Fah Sai and Ploy Thong were swept away by floodwaters.
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