FOREST FIRES roaring through Trat province since Feb. 26 have destroyed over 2,500 rai of forests so far with wild elephants too now fleeing for safety, Naewna newspaper said today (Mar. 7). Mr. Pasawat Chotiwatphongchai, head of both unit 15 for resolving wild elephant problems and Klong Kaew Waterfall National Park, said after several
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Minister blasted over wild elephants killing villagers
By Thai Newsroom Reporters NATURAL RESOURCES & ENVIRONMENT Minister Varawut Silpa-archa today (Nov. 10) came under fire for allegedly failing to protect villagers from being killed or injured by wild elephants. The House Extraordinary Committee for Wild Elephants took the natural resources & environment minister to task at parliament in the face of last
Read moreHungry elephants raid durian orchard in Hua Hin
By Thai Newsroom Reporters A HERD OF WILD ELEPHANTS have wreaked havoc to a durian orchard in Hua Hin’s inland area where they visited uninvited and forcibly pulled down the fruit for dinner. The wild elephants in Kaeng Krachan national park caught the wind-blown smells of ripe durian grown in the neighborhood of Pala-U village
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