A national park in northern Thailand was temporarily closed from Friday (Dec 13) after a wild elephant killed a 49-year-old Thai woman this week. The fatal elephant attack on Wednesday was the ...

Thailand's most revered animal — the wild Asian elephant — has now become one of the country's biggest problems. Decades of deforestation and overdevelopment of natural habitat is pushing wild ...

A Thai elephant gifted to Sri Lanka two decades ago arrived back in its birth country on Sunday, following a diplomatic spat over the animal’s alleged mistreatment. Thai authorities had gifted ...

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