Today, the veterinarian and mahout team began the operation to move ‘Plai Dok Kaew’ from the Elephant Conservation and Environment Foundation to a new home.
Today, the 8-year-old elephant, Ploy Dok Kaew, is cheerful and cheerful, showing no signs of stress. Blood tests show that he is in good health and ready to be moved. The staff of the Umbrella Elephant Team, along with more than 20 volunteer elephant handlers, led by veterinarian Preecha Puangkam, former director of the National Elephant Institute, and the leader of the moving team, brought an elephant truck into the Elephant Care Center of the Elephant and Environment Conservation Foundation in Tambon Kuet Chang, Amphoe Mae Taeng, Chiang Mai Province since the afternoon to move Ploy Dok Kaew, an elephant that Ms. Kanchana Silpa-archa left for the foundation to take care of for many years, to a new home. However, the elephant truck got stuck in the mud and could not reach the elephant pen, so they had to adjust their plan this past evening.
The operatio
n team along with volunteer elephant handlers paid respects to the local spirits and asked to move the elephant to boost the mahout’s morale before feeding it and getting it used to the mahout. The heavy rain made the operation difficult and they had to wait for Plai Dok Kaew to calm down from the effects of the medicine.
The plan is to use a male elephant crossing the border, which is an adult elephant, to be the receiving elephant to lead Plai Dok Kaew out of the area and use another elephant to walk alongside to get on the car on the road in front of the Non-Formal Education Center, Kuet Chang Subdistrict. The elephant transport team is confident that they will be able to move Plai Dok Kaew to a new home at the Phat Elephant Camp in Ban Pong Subdistrict, Hang Dong District. The transport team is trying to move Plai Dok Kaew by tonight after the drama between Ms. Kanchana Silpa-archa and Phi Lek-Saengduean Chailert, the foundation’s president, regarding the flooding incident at the foundation’s elephant ca
re center early October, which caused two elephants to be swept away by the water, as well as the issue of elephant keeping, to the point that Phi Lek posted that if he was uncomfortable, he should ask Noona to come and take the two elephants he had left in his care: Plai Dok Kaew, an orphaned elephant that Noona bought when she was two years old, and Plai Khundet, a disabled wild elephant, to be raised elsewhere, until Ms. Dok Kaew was moved today.
Source: Thai News Agency