Elephant

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 elephants into farms and villages in search of food, increasingly with dangerous consequences.  Paweena Aekkachan lost her 54-year-old husband earlier …

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If you ever get an opportunity to go to Thailand, chances are you’ll come home with a souvenir with the country’s national animal on it…the Asian elephant. Elephants are more than a point of pride in Thailand. They’re part of the country’s identity. A century ago, 90% of Thailand was …

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