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Efforts intensify to stop wild elephants entering communities, tourist sites
Prasit Tangprasert, Published on 03/02/2026
» NAKHON RATCHASIMA — Park rangers are trying to keep wild elephants away from communities and tourist attractions during the dry season. The measures cover a bull elephant that has killed three people, including a camper, in this northeastern province.
Elephant kills tourist at Khao Yai campground
Prasit Tangprasert, Published on 02/02/2026
» NAKHON RATCHASIMA - A wild bull elephant killed a tourist exercising near his tent at a campground in Khao Yai National Park on Monday morning.
Korat Zoo has Thailand's first Aldabra giant tortoise hatchlings
News, Prasit Tangprasert, Published on 21/05/2025
» Korat Zoo has welcomed the arrival of 11 hatchlings of the Aldabra giant tortoise, the first zoo in Thailand to successfully breed the species.
535 monkeypox cases reported nationwide since May last year
Prasit Tangprasert, Published on 26/10/2023
» A total of 535 cases of monkeypoxes were reported nationwide between May 2022 and October 2023, said Dr Taweechai Wisanuyothin, director of the Nakhon Ratchasima-based Region 9 Disease Control Office, citing the figures released by the Department of Disease Control (DDC).
Korat zoo welcomes new member - sun bear
Prasit Tangprasert, Published on 05/10/2023
» Nakhon Ratchasima Zoo has a new member - a one-month-old sun bear (Helarctos malayanus), a species on the brink of extinction and under protection.
Sick wild elephant dies at plantation in Korat
Prasit Tangprasert, Published on 01/09/2023
» NAKHON RATCHASIMA - A wild elephant died on Thursday night at a cassava plantation in Khon Buri district. It had collapsed because of sickness and was found by villagers earlier that same night.
Gaur carcass found in Wang Nam Khieo
Prasit Tangprasert, Published on 14/07/2023
» NAKHON RATCHASIMA: The carcass of a male gaur, believed to have been shot to death, was found on Thursday near a village in Wang Nam Khieo district.
Rescue driver killed in head-on collision
Prasit Tangprasert, Published on 21/02/2023
» NAKHON RATCHASIMA: The driver of a Por Teck Tung Foundation rescue service vehicle was killed and seven other people injured in a head-on collision involving two pickups on the Mitrapap highway in Si Khiu district on Tuesday morning, police said.
Arts teacher accused of sexual abuse of students
Prasit Tangprasert, Published on 17/01/2023
» NAKHON RATCHASIMA: An arts teacher at a secondary school in Non Sung district has been dismissed and is being investigated after videos of him having sex with girl students went viral on social media.
Man bitten to death by own pit bulls
Prasit Tangprasert, Published on 23/10/2022
» NAKHON RATCHASIMA: A man who kept seven pit bulls in his house has died after being attacked by one or two of the dogs in Muang district on Saturday, a member of the Hook 31 rescue unit said.