Headless body of elephant found in Kaeng Krachan park The Nation April 10, 2013 Another wild elephant has been slaughtered in Phetchaburi's Kaeng Krachan National Park, apparently by poachers after its ivory, deputy chief of the National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation Department Theerapat Prayurasiddhi said yesterday. Theerapat said that…
At almost 70 year of age Bua leaves our world Bua Ngun arrived at WFFT in November 2009 in a poor condition. After WFFT received a complaint about an old female elephant chained up in Burirum province in Thailand, Edwin traveled up to this location to find an old elephant…
Killed by poachers; overdose of anesthesia? A baby elephant aged between 3 to 6 months old was found dead in Salakpra forest in Kanchanaburi. Villagers from Wangchan in Wangdong district who went to collect forest products found the calf, who had died only a few hours before. The baby elephant…
Num choke's trouble with her feet Num Choke, the elephant that was rescued in February 2013, has cracked feet and nails as foot care was likely neglected for a few years. Vets at WFFT trimmed and debrided her feet under sedation yesterday. We are now going to constuct a few…
The killing must stop! On Friday 08 March 2013 rangers of Kaengkrachan National park were alerted by people living in Padaeng village, Petchaburi that they smelled a decomposing animal and went to look for it, finding a dead elephant near the source of the Tamao Creek, Padaeng, Kaengkrachan, Petchaburi. The…
After 40 years of hard labor, retirement at last! Boonmee is a 55 year elephant that was rescued and retired for life today! Boonmee has worked for a while in logging and over 25 years in the tourism industry and was until yesterday working at an elephant camp in Kanchanaburi…
(WFFT forwards a message from AAA Thailand) Sadly, Thailand is one of the highest ranked countries in illegal ivory trade. Even though one of basic precepts of Buddhist is to abstain from taking life, still some Thai monks and their believers turns out to be the major consumer in this…
A story written by “AAA Thailand”, a Thai group in reply to news articles on the “Pajaan” or the breaking of the spirit of elephants in Thailand. A founder of an elephant rescue foundation based in Lampang has denied in the media that the breaking of the spirit or Pajaan,…
Burma and Thailand elephant laundering In a series of stories about the illegal elephant trade in Thailand and the cover ups by some authorities and in particular the head of one specific department Edwin Wiek will in the months coming up to the CITES conference in Bangkok (March 2013) publish…
Source: The Daily Mail http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2176957/The-agonising-blows-expose-evil-secrets-Thailands-elephant-tourism-The-Duchess-Cornwalls-brother-tells-baby-elephants-brutally-starved-tortured.html?ito=feeds-newsxml The agonising blows that expose the evil secrets of Thailand’s elephant tourism con: The Duchess of Cornwall’s brother tells how baby elephants are brutally starved and tortured There are few things more adorable than a baby elephant. Little more than 3ft tall and naturally curious,…
WFFT to the rescue of another elephant. Meet Duenpen, an approximately 50 year elephant that has worked for the last 25 years at elephant tourist camps. Duenpen is currently receiving a health screening as she has fallen sick lately but was still forced to work anyhow to provide enough income…
Phuket Gazette – Saturday, February 11, 2012 11:26:00 PM (for more of the stories of the PHUKET GAZETTE follow link to www.phuketgazette.net) PHUKET: Three elephant camps in Phuket are being investigated after concerns were raised about the origins of the baby elephants in their possession. Officers of Central Investigation Bureau…
Bull elephant went crazy at Huahin Wednesday morning at 09:00 Am we received a phone call from Hutsadin elephant camp in Huahin that one of their sub-adult males was on the loose and charging their staff. The almost 4 tonnes heavy bull was becoming a danger to the neighborhood and…
Three days after our letter was printed in The Nation newspaper we now see some kind of a reaction from the minister of natural resources and environment, unfortunately he does not yet fully understand how to set up and manage this database, but it is a start! We need to…
Edwin Wiek Special to The Nation (story printed in The Nation on Tuesday 24 January 2012) http://www.nationmultimedia.com/opinion/Thai-elephants-are-being-killed-for-tourist-dollar-30174341.html News on elephants in Thailand since the start of this year has been dominated by the brutal killing of wild tuskers in Kaeng Krachan and Kui Buri national parks. At least six wild…
Bangkok Post January 19, 2012 Things keep getting fishier and fishier at the Kaeng Krachan National Park, following the slaughter of two wild elephants, one burned to cinders and the other left rotting in a field, minus their tusks and sexual organs. Scandalous? Let’s look at the news chronologically. Shortly…