Elephant News From Asia Links

Asian elephants are in a lot of trouble throughout their native ranges and face numerous threats to their continued survival. Read More

Habitat destruction and deforestation continues unabated in many areas throughout Asia destroying what little is left of the elephants’ natural forest habitat. Large areas are logged for timber that is sought after throughout the world. The cleared areas are then used for human settlements, agricultural farms or industrial plantations which include palm oil, rubber and tea.

As their habitat shrinks elephants and humans are coming into increasing contact resulting in conflict over resources including food. Human - Elephant conflict is a huge problem throughout Asia. It results in the deaths of hundreds of elephants and people every year. This ongoing and increasingly common conflict is one of the biggest threats to the future of the Asian Elephant.

Another threat to elephants is poaching for ivory and meat. Whilst many people may think poaching of elephants for their tusks ended many years ago, recently there has been a massive increase in ivory smuggling and seizures by authorities. Thousands of elephants, both African an Asian, are killed every year for their tusks to supply black-market demand for ivory.

These problems contribute to increasingly fragmented and declining elephant populations and are a real threat to the future of wild elephants throughout Asia.

Each month articles will be posted below that have been reported throughout native countries in Asia.

These articles are sourced & collated by the Save The Elephants organisation and they provide a snapshot of what is happening on the ground with wild Asian elephant populations.

Note: These articles are reproduced for reference only and the accuracy of the information therein, and any views they espouse, is attributable solely to the publications in which they were originally published.

April 2013

Two trampled to death by elephants in Assam (India)
Apr 23 2013,
Zeenews.com
Trafficking gang 'killed elephants' (Thailand)
Apr 21 2013,
Jessada Chuntraruk and Janjira Pongrai, The Nation
Elephants being killed on Indian Railway tracks
Apr 19 2013,
Venus Upadhayaya, Epoch Times
Caustic intoxicant indicated in deaths of 14 elephants (Malaysia)
Apr 18 2013,
New Straits Times
Officials Seize 10.7 Kilogram of Ivory (India)
Apr 18 2013,
NTD Televison
Karnataka: Wild elephants pose threat to voting in border areas (India)
Apr 17 2013,
HM Aravind, Times of India
Tusker tramples woman to death (India)
Apr 17 2013,
Times of India
Jumbo herd attacks, critically injures two (India)
Apr 16 2013,
Times of India
Jumbo electrocuted in sponge iron unit (India)
Apr 15 2013,
Binita Jaiswal, Times of India
Park chief, jumbo deaths 'not linked' (Thailand)
Apr 13 2013,
Pongphon Sarnsamak, The Nation
EC is ready if elephants come to voting arena (India)
Apr 11 2013,
G. T. Satish, The Hindu
Dead elephant was pregnant (Thailand)
Apr 10 2013,
Bangkok Post
Ivory hunters kill another elephant (Thailand)
Apr 9 2013,
Bangkok Post
Wild elephants deployed by Colombo's forest department claim lives of Tamils in Batticaloa (Sri Lanka)
Apr 9 2013,
TamilNet
Assam rhino poachers may have killed Buxa jumbo (India)
Apr 9 2013,
Pinak Priya Bhattacharya, Times of India
Foresters on jumbo task in Harur, Erode (India)
Apr 8 2013,
Express News Service
Endangered Vietnam elephant 'skinned, disemboweled'
Apr 6 2013,
Agence France Presse
Elephants break into Kerala farm to drink clean water (India)
Apr 6 2013,
Deccan Herald
Over 12 jumbos die in Mudumalai (India)
Apr 6 2013,
B. Ravichandran, Deccan Chronicle
Summer separates jumbos, calves (India)
Apr 3 2013,
By Vincent D’Souza, The New Indian Express

Elephant News From Asia Links

April 2013

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