FREE weekly issue 15 2
14 October 2011
Area 555 Sudoku Webb’s Wining Property Marketplace Looney Rooney
shocking ivory theft Attack on Bull Elephant at Charity Foundation in Hua Hin
hua hin, THAILAND AWOL received a shocking press release this week from the Hutsadin Elephant Foundation about the theft of the ivory tusks from one of their elephants, as follows: “During the course of the night of the 6/7 October intruders entered the Hutsadin Elephant Foundation situated just outside Hua Hin and attacked ‘Sang Chan’ a 24 year old Bull Elephant, who had been separated from the rest of the residents as he was in musk. It would appear that the culprits sedated him before removing both his tusks close to their roots. The elephant is fortunately still alive but is in a bad way having lost a considerable amount of blood and is receiving veterinary care. Because of the nature of this attack it could so easily have caused his death. The Hua Hin police are investigating this heinous crime against a gentle creature who has provided so much pleasure for so many visitors to the Foundation. The obvious motive for this crime is the theft of the ivory, which is a banned trade throughout the world. A conservative estimate of the value of these tusks is in excess of TB1 million. Everyone who works at the Foundation is shocked and sickened by what we have witnessed. The Foundation is a registered charity set up by 3 local businessmen to rescue and provide a place for old, injured and exploited elephants who can either no longer work and in some cases are abandoned by their owners or sold to the Foundation. It is situated close to the Shrine dedicated to the 5 brave Thai soldiers, who convinced the attacking Burmese forces that they were much greater in number thus buying valuable time enabling the Thai army to regroup and eventually defeat the invaders. continued on page 5
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