Thriving on Elephant Ground
By WWF Malaysia This year, the world grieved as they learned about the tragic death of a pregnant Asian elephant in Kerala, India who ate a firecracker-filled pineapple. The jumbo died in unimaginable pain as the firecracker exploded in her mouth — a poignant photograph of the dark realities of human-elephant conflict and the devastating […]
There’s hope for Thailand’s starving and ‘jobless’ elephants
BY LINDA KHOO HUI LI BANGKOK: Gai Na and To-Me – two female elephants aged 60 years and 56 years, respectively – frolic by the riverbank under the scorching sun at Elephants World in the western province of Kanchanaburi, located about 200km from Bangkok. Nearby, a 24-year-old mahout named Ehdar sat under a tree, closely […]
