PHUKET: A new-born elephant is delighting visitors to a camp at the Nakkerd Hills, near the Big Buddha in Phuket's southern district of Chalong.
The young female does not have a name as yet and was photographed above at the age of three days.
The delightful antics of the newborn cover a hidden story of elephant smuggling onto Phuket
Mother elephant Fah Sai, aged about 26, is one of three elephants recently smuggled onto the holiday island and discovered by livestock authorities.
The elephants, two males, mother Fah Sai and now the nameless young elephant, will be ''deported'' to the province of Surin once mother and child have the strength to travel.
The young female does not have a name as yet and was photographed above at the age of three days.
The delightful antics of the newborn cover a hidden story of elephant smuggling onto Phuket
Mother elephant Fah Sai, aged about 26, is one of three elephants recently smuggled onto the holiday island and discovered by livestock authorities.
The elephants, two males, mother Fah Sai and now the nameless young elephant, will be ''deported'' to the province of Surin once mother and child have the strength to travel.
It's funny. Phuket has to many elephants and don't want more elephants but still more and more elephants with legal transfer to Phuket-and transport documents are coming to Phuket. Does this mean that 'influential' people in the north of Thailand have more power, more saying in bringing elephants to Phuket than the Phuket governor/ government? Issue of 'elephant-papers' about bringing the elephants to Phuket should be decided on Phuket, not somewhere else in Thailand by 'influential' people.
Posted by Kurt on October 14, 2014 10:17