Elephants Help Clear Debris in Thailand
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BANG NIENG, Thailand -- A year ago, they were filming battle scenes for the movie &quot;Alexander.&quot; Now six elephants are pitching in to help with the massive cleanup from the tsunami that devastated many of Thailand's prime tourist destinations.
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Scientists led by Samuel Wasser of the University of Washington collected manure samples in areas inhabited by African elephants. The geneticists isolated DNA from the manure and transferred it into the database.
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GABORONE, Botswana  - When Uttum Corea arrived in  Africa from Sri Lanka he was puzzled by the widely held notion  that African elephants could not be tamed.
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BAN NAMKHEM, Thailand -- This fishing village north of Thailand's Khao Lak beach no longer exists. Maitri Sayput, 47, thinks she is one of its few survivors.
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KHAO LAK, Thailand  - Rescuers have saved a  dolphin swept over a Thai beach by the tsunami that devastated  shores around the Indian Ocean, but failed on Wednesday to find  her calf in a filthy lake left behind by the giant wave.
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PHANG NGA, Thailand  - Thailand is to exhume  hundreds buried after the Indian Ocean tsunami, restarting the  task of putting names to thousands of unidentified bodies,  including those of many foreign tourists.
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The African elephant got a new line of defense against poachers Monday after a global wildlife conference approved measures aimed at wiping out the continent's illegal ivory trade.
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Wanphen Sripirom has struggled for years to scrape a living as a subsistence farmer in Phichit Province, north of Bangkok. Chickens have provided
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Travel: Gwladys Fouche joins a mahout training course at an elephant camp in the heart of Laos. But it soon becomes apparent that two days won't be enough.
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Wildlife conservationists are expected to push for new trade restrictions to protect fast-disappearing animals and plants, while lobbyists try to free up commerce in some species at international talks starting yesterday in Bangkok.
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JAKARTA/BANGKOK (DPA): Thailand, under growing pressure to repatriate some 100 orangutans allegedly smuggled into the country from Indonesia, plans to shift the apes from a private zoo to a safe centre, probably in Chiang Mai, a minister said on Thursday.
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A Thai zoo workers sprays disinfect chemical as tigers look on at the Sriracha Tiger Zoo in Chonburi province, southeast of Bangkok, Thailand, after the zoo was ordered to close down Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2004.
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By JERRY HARMER CHIANG MAI, Thailand - New Yorker Ashrita Furman looked around for a record he could break, and settled on doing the most squat thrusts in one minute. Then he decided on a place - the back of an elephant in northern Thailand.
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By Aranee Jaiimsin, Bangkok Post, Thailand  Feb.
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Bodies were still being recovered a week after Thailand's tidal wave disaster, as the clean-up moved into full speed in some of the devastated resort areas.
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Rescuers saved a rare dolphin swept over a Thai beach by the tsunami which devastated shores around the Indian Ocean, but failed to find her calf in a filthy lake left behind by the giant wave.
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Wildlife conservationists are expected to push for new trade restrictions to protect fast-disappearing animals and plants, while lobbyists try to liberate trade in some species at international talks starting today in Bangkok, Thailand.