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Bangkok Metropolitan Administration Governor Sukhumbhand Paribatra vowed Friday to ensure that no elephants roam in Bangkok streets in one year.

He deployed teams of municipality police to check major Bangkok streets as to whether mahouts led their elephants to beg on the streets or not.

He said the BMA would cooperate with a foundation to buy elephants so that they could live happily in special zones in provinces.

He said the foundation would buy elephants at the rate of Bt300,000 to Bt1 million and he hoped that the owners of the elephants would not raise the prices to be unreasonably high.

The city administration would help raise funds for the foundation to buy the elephants, he said.

He said by July next year there should be no more elephants begging on Bangkok streets.

The Nation