"Wildlife sanctuary"

A two-year-old female elephant named Thap Salao at Doi Pha Mueang Wildlife Sanctuary in Lampang is proving a big hit with netizens.

Rangers from Loei’s Phu Luang Wildlife Sanctuary found more than 100 traps placed around a natural well in an area dubbed Dan Chang or elephants’ path in Phu Rua district on the edge of the sanctuary.

It was an elephantine task: more than 100 Wildlife Conservation Office staffers came together on Wednesday to transport wild elephant “Phlai Nga Ge” from Rayong’s Khao Chamao district to Khao Ang Rue Nai Wildlife Sanctuary.

Defence witnesses on Wednesday gave the testimonies in the trial of a billionaire construction tycoon accused of leading a poaching expedition that killed a black leopard in a Kanchanaburi wildlife sanctuary earlier this year.

Various “volunteer-spirit tourist” groups comprising 43 off-road trucks were not allowed to enter Kanchanaburi’s Thung Yai Naresuan wildlife sanctuary during December 8-9 because they failed to adhere to the rules and conditions for gaining access, according to sanctuary chief Wichien Chinnawong.

Police plea for three more charges turned down by attorney general

EMBATTLED construction tycoon Premchai Karnasuta yesterday told shareholders of Italian-Thai Development (ITD) that the much-publicised killing of a black leopard – whose remains were found at his campsite in a wildlife sanctuary in February – would not affect the company’s business and it would continue to bid for more construction projects.

An elephant was injured Thursday afternoon after being hit by a pickup truck in a wildlife sanctuary in Chachoengsao province.

Homes searched in poaching probe as senior police pledge to charge offenders.

The construction company tycoon arrested recently on charges of poaching in a wildlife sanctuary is not the only millionaire who enjoyed an “adventurous lifestyle” including hunting wild animals, a source in the Natural Resources and Environment Ministry said on Wednesday.

The director of a Phetchabun wildlife sanctuary was killed on Tuesday morning when his pickup truck was caught in whirling floodwaters.