The Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation in cooperation with Chiang Mai Night Safari held a campaign to raise awareness to conserve elephants at the Night Safari on March 5, 2016.
The Director General of the Department Thanya Netidhammadul chaired the opening ceremony of “The Future of Elephant is in Our Hands” together with Deputy Governor Krit Thanawanich and Dr.Sarawut Srisakul, acting for Director of Pingkanakorn Development Agency (Public Organization).
The Director General of the Department Thanya Netidhammadul joined Deputy Governor Krit Thanawanich and Dr.Sarawut Srisakul, acting for Director of Pingkanakorn Development Agency (Public Organization) for the opening ceremony of “The Future of Elephant is in Our Hands” campaign at the Chiang Mai Night Safari on March 3 -5, 2016.
“The Future of Elephant is in Our Hands” project was held by the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation in cooperation with Pingkanakorn Development Agency (Public Organization) at the Chiang Mai Night Safari from March 3 -5 to celebrate World Wildlife Day on March 3 of every year.
Additionally it was held to publicize operation the results of elephant conservation and ivory control of Thailand. The World Wildlife Day’s theme was “The Future of Elephant is in Our Hands” emphasizing elephants to encourage people to actively be a part of protection of wild animals and rare plants living in the same world with us. Animals and plants have been threatened due to habitat loss, weather change, and hunting. Particularly hunting and the ivory trade has seen 100,000 African elephants cruelly killed to supply human’s demand of ivory.
The campaign has set up 40 wild animals check points across the country and organized talks about elephant conservation. The event contained exhibitions of history and importance of the event, results of elephant conservation and ivory trade control in Thailand and video on the project.
Thailand is a signatory of CITES and has been working to enforce those agreements especially in regards to the illegal ivory trade and promote understanding of the importance of elephant conservation.
