News Forum - Authorities worry too many elephants in Chon Buri, eastern provinces

[Thaiger]

Thailand’s wildlife authorities worry there are too many elephants in Chon Buri, and 4 other eastern provinces including Chachoengsao, Rayong, Chanthaburi and Sa Kaeo. On Friday, the director of the department’s Wildlife Conservation Office addressed the public about elephants’ behaviours, and ways to get them back into the wild if they came into community areas. The director, Phadet Laithong, said that the department is limiting the space in forested areas where elephants can live, and pushing back elephants that go outside of the designated areas. He said there is enough food and water for the elephants in their designated spaces. […]

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[PapayaBokBok]

In related news thai elephants there are too many people in thailand.....asks to be left TF alone....

[Tim_Melb]

It's sad, it's the nature of elephants to migrate from one feeding location to the next in a continual circuit so as to not exhaust the food in any particular location. Forcing them to stay in parks goes against their natural behaviour so they will always wander no matter if their is enough food in the park or not. I don't know what the solution is but it's sad that they don't have a solution for one of Thailand's most iconic animals. 

[Grumpyoldman]

The parks are big enough for them to move around. The issue is villages around the edges and the danger the elephants pose as they find new and easy food sources. They eat crops the locals depend upon and can be very destructive to property.

 

Our village has nightly elephant patrols by national park rangers and is surrounded by a huge moat as a deterrent, but they still find their way in.

[cowslip]

The parks aren't big enough - there needs to be a (corridor) management system that allows elephants to migrate.

It is sad that the Thai authorities' response is "too many elephants" - the reality is that there is too much encroachment.

" Asian elephant is classified as Endangered by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Its population has declined by an estimated 50 percent over the past 75 years," - Nat Geo. They fall into the top ten of most endangered animals.

elephants are a flagship species and represent the state of wildlife conservation and the ecology of the region - this statement by the authorities is largely negative a retrogressive.

 

Edited May 17, 2022 by Khunwilko