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Wildlife ranger killed by elephant
Gary Boyle, Published on 04/03/2025
» A wildlife ranger was killed and another injured by a wild elephant they were trying to chase away from village farms in Phetchabun on Monday.
Wildlife ranger killed by elephant
News, Published on 04/03/2025
» PHETCHABUN – A wildlife ranger was killed and another injured by a wild elephant they were trying to chase away from village farms in Lom Kao district on Monday.
Wild jumbos not the issue
Oped, Editorial, Published on 16/03/2024
» To mark National Elephant Day -- which is celebrated every year on March 13 -- the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has rolled out a conservation plan to protect elephants. The highlight of this year's celebrations was a scheme by the Department of National Parks and Wildlife to develop "training centres" to tame "angry elephants", according to Attapon Charoenchansa, director-general of the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation (DNP).
Training camps planned for aggressive wild elephants
Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 13/03/2024
» The national parks and wildlife chief has announced plans for training centres to discipline aggressive wild elephants involved in the increasing number of attacks on people.
Bees can help solve a jumbo problem
Life, Pongpet Mekloy, Published on 08/01/2020
» Conflicts between wild elephants and farmers living near forests can be severe in certain parts of Thailand. The problem happens when the pachyderms venture outside of their natural habitat to forage. That often results in villagers losing a year’s crops, elephants getting killed or both. But a non-violent solution is now a possibility, and the public can help make it happen.
Local chief caught in drug busts
News, Post Reporters, Published on 24/11/2018
» Nine suspects, among them one local community leader, were arrested in three drug crackdowns during the past week, the Narcotics Suppression Bureau revealed yesterday.
Beehive fence stops attacks by hungry elephants
Terry Fredrickson, Published on 17/07/2017
» A farmer in Khaeng Hang Maew district of Chanthaburi province has finally found a humane way to keep the hungry jumbos away without harming them – a beehive fence.
Beehive fence stops elephants from destroying crops
Kyodo News, Published on 16/07/2017
» CHANTHABURI - After years of crop and house damage caused by wild elephants in Khaeng Hang Maew กistrict of Chanthaburi province, a local farmer finally found a humane way to keep the hungry jumbos away without harming them -- a beehive fence.