“Researchers from Chiang Mai University (CMU) have a new means of fighting phobias and depression _ elephants. CMU had previously studied the effects of ”elephant therapy” on autistic children and, having noted promising results, are now proposing a similar programme for people suffering from depression or phobias. ” - Bangkok Post
“When a concise history of the achievements and failures of the present government comes to be written, an accusing finger will point to the neglect of certain national assets. Wildlife conservation is likely to be one such casualty; the environment another. But the government still has time to redeem itself and its scorecard could be worse. ” - Bangkok Post
“More than 100 elephants hauling logs on the Thai-Burmese border are in constant danger, as one step in the wrong direction could injure or even kill them.” - Bangkok Post
“Thai doctors fit plastic prosthesis to elephant’s foot, after she lost it in landmine blast, in medical advance which holds out hope for other pachyderms _ including Motala the elephant, injured in Karen state blast nine years ago, writes Somsak Suksai” - Bangkok Post
“Elephants have been big business in Thailand for centuries, but it is only recently that they also have become tourist attractions.” - Bangkok Post
“Wild elephants trampled to death one Buddhist monk on a forest pilgrimage and seriously injured another in Thap Lan national park on Thursday.” - Bangkok Post
“The Bangkok Post said two men from Burma’s Karen ethnic group were riding a motorcycle near the southern beach resort of Hua Hin yesterday when they came across the elephants blocking the road.” - NEWS.com.au
“The elephants themselves are also teachers of a sort, conveying knowledge about the world of Thai elephants to Australian families, to schoolchildren and their teachers, as they visit the zoos.” - Bangkok Post
“Motala, the world’s first elephant to receive a prosthetic leg, on Monday received new padding for the artificial leg to mark the anniversary of her operation seven years ago. ” - Bangkok Post
“The Asian Conservation Alliance has called on Chiang Mai Night Safari to check whether five elephants to be delivered to a zoo in China are wild or captive-bred animals.” - Bangkok Post
“Thailand’s National Park, Wildlife and Plant Conservation Department on Monday reconfirmed its earlier rejection of requests for DNA testing to verify the demographic status of eight Thai elephants earmarked for Australian zoos, saying it will carry out the export of the pachyderms as planned. ” - Bangkok Post
“A Kanchanaburi wildlife conservation group announced that it won’t negotiate with the government and waits for the result of DNA testing to verify whether the Australia-bound elephants are home-bred or from the wild.” - Bangkok Post
“The Thai government in collaboration with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) plan to publish a handbook on how to take care of your elephant, the state-run Thai News Agency (TNA) says.” - Bangkok Post
“Herds of hungry elephants attack villages, destroy plantations and rob trucks with food in eastern Thailand, the keeper of the national park Ang Lue Nai told Bangkok Post. And the man is not joking at all. The wearisome drought has forced 130 elephants to drop in villages in search of water and food; on their way the elephants trample down the nearby plantations.” - PRAVDA.Ru
