BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand has begun using a birth control vaccine on elephants in the wild to try and curb a growing problem where human and animal populations encroach on each other — an issue in areas ...

Thailand is using a birth control vaccine on elephants in the wild to try and curb a growing problem where human and animal populations encroach on each other. It's an issue in areas where farms ...

Separated from their mothers, jabbed with metal hooks, and sometimes deprived of food -- many Thai elephants are tamed by force before being sold to lucrative tourism sites increasingly advertised as ...

In the last century, Thailand has lost roughly 92 percent of its elephant population. Factors such as illegal wildlife trade, deforestation, and human-animal conflict have led the Asian elephant to ...

The male elephant, named Plai Biang Lek, ransacks sweet rice crackers at shop in Nakhon Ratchasima province, Thailand, Monday, June 2, 2025. (Kanokporn Sriboon via AP) BANGKOK (AP) — A hungry wild ...

Ethical tourism has been gaining traction for years. One of the attractions that has consistently made headlines for all the ...

(CNN) — A Spanish woman was gored to death by an elephant while bathing the animal at a sanctuary in southern Thailand on Friday, according to local police. CNN — (CNN) — A Spanish woman was gored to ...

A wild bull elephant killed a tourist in central Thailand’s Khao Yai National Park on Monday, a park official said, the third fatality linked to the same animal. The 65-year-old Thai tourist from ...