Thread: Wild elephants die near pond

Two wild elephants were killed near a pond at a rubber plantation in Kaeng Hangmaew district of Chanthaburi province.

Villagers alerted forestry officials this morning after two dead elephants were found near their pond.

Forestry officials said they suspected the wild elephants were killed by electrocution as they found electrical cord connected to a water pump in the pond was pulled out and laid near the dead elephants.

They suspected that the two bull elephants, aged about 10 years old, came down from the Khao Ang Ruenai wildlife sanctuary mountain to drink water from the farmers’ pond after water ran dry in the sanctuary.

The electrical cord might obstruct their passage to the pond and therefore one elephant might use its trunk to pull it away and was then electrocuted.

Another was also electrocuted as it tried to help another with its trunk.

The carcasses of the two elephants became to decompose, indicating they might died over a week ago.

Authorities will look into the actual cause of deaths before establishing the real cause.

They have three motives for their deaths, electrocution, poisoning, or gunshot wounds.

They were using scanners to find whether they had bullets buried in their bodies or not.

Wild elephants die near pond - Thai PBS English News

Authorities will look into the actual cause of deaths before establishing the real cause.

Sounds like a good plan, that.

Great leviathans...What a fook of a way to go...Sad, indeed...

Court’s warrant sought for the arrest of a rubber plantation owner for killing two elephants

Police in Chanthaburi province are gathering evidences to seek a court’s warrant for the arrest of a rubber plantation owner for allegedly killing two elephants with electricity.

Pol Gen Chalermkiat Srivorakhan, the deputy national police chief and director of the Centre for the Suppression of Violations regarding Natural Resources and Environment, said Friday that a police team and a veterinarian had gone to Ang Rua Nai wildlife sanctuary in Kaeng Hang Maew district of Chanthaburi to investigate the death of bull elephant and a female elephant, both about ten years old.

The team found gunshot wounds on the right side of the bull elephant but the veterinarian concluded that the two pachyderms died of sudden heart attack caused by electric shocks. No traces of poison were found in the stomachs of the two animals.

A rubber plantation owner, identified as Mr Nawaporn Hongchan, reportedly told the police that he set up electric fence to protect his rubber plantation from elephants which often strayed into his plantation to search for food and water. However, he denied that he was responsible for the deaths of the two elephants.

Court?s warrant sought for the arrest of a rubber plantation owner for killing two elephants - Thai PBS English News