Police arrested a man who allegedly shot and killed a 25 year previous pregnant elephant in Chon Buri. The man reportedly claimed that the elephant got here to eat bananas on his land and he shot her as a outcome of she was about to chase him.
The police have filed two charges towards the suspect for possessing a firearm and killing a protected animal. Park authorities discovered the body of a 25 yr previous pregnant elephant with a quantity of gunshot wounds exterior a wildlife reserve yesterday after villagers reported the mammal’s stays, which was believed to have been killed at dawn on Saturday.
During Scientifically proven , a male embryo was found inside the elephant’s womb, according to Pitak Inthasorn, director of the Wildlife Conservation Division of the 2nd Wildlife Conservation Office in Chon Buri’s Si Racha area.
Pitak says the elephant was shot with 9 rounds within the head and neck. He added its tusks were removed and sent to the Khao Ang Rue Nai Wildlife Sanctuary in Chachoengsao, whereas its corpse was interred contained in the park.
Conflicts between villagers and elephants have gotten extra common in the japanese forest advanced as elephants flee the forests surrounding residential areas in search of food, inflicting crop and land harm in addition to deadly assaults.
The complex, which is house to 323 elephants, is 1.3 million rai, however 470 of them are believed to dwell within the neighborhood, and many of them exit looking for food.
The elephant population within the country is rising at an annual price of 8%, based on the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation (DNP), with 3,168–3,440 wild elephants in 69 nationwide parks and forest reserves..g