Elephant-human conflict has been on the rise in recent decades -- not just in Thailand, but in places like India and across Asia where the animals live. As human settlements and infrastructure ...

We didn’t want the elephant or the forestry department officials to get hurt.” White elephants, actually albinos, have for centuries been revered in Myanmar, Thailand, Laos and other Asian ...

Video footage from Nakhon Ratchasima in northeast Thailand shows the elephant, a 25-year-old bull named Plai Biang Lek, using his trunk to help himself to some snacks on June 2.

An elephant named Plai Biang Lek entered a local grocery store in Thailand on Monday, June 2. Rangers say the elephant wandered in from Kha Yai National Park and grabbed nine bags of sweet rice ...