The unscientific activist ideas that kill humans and wild elephants in Assam and elsewhere! Unscrupulous activists and organizations have devised ideas to save elephants lives through unscientific methods that do exactly the opposite! Scores of people get killed in just a small area in Assam every year. […]
Open letter to all HEC stakeholders on Thailand nationwide HEC taskforce: Thanks to hard work by the Royal Thai Forest Department and the DNP, Thailand is now the leader in Asian wild elephant conservation. Unfortunately, the sharp increase in elephant populations has also led to a serious increase in HEC. The biggest concern is now,
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The ethics in elephant conservation in Thailand A closer look at the definition of “ethical elephant sanctuary” Thailand has a century-old tradition of elephant keeping; originally used in the army and logging. After the logging ban,30 years ago, most elephants became redundant, resulting in begging elephants on the streets of Bangkok and elsewhere. Elephants then
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NWA Elephant team helping a wild elephant to cross a main highway Our well trained Elephant depredation team mastered a very difficult situation! When an Elephant bull came out of the forest, the team was alerted immediately. Recognizing the elephant, we knew that he was going to cross the nearby main highway at some
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C.R.O.W. a new partnership with NWA NWA is proud to announce our new partnership with C.R.O.W. WHO WE ARE There is a WAR in Africa between Poachers and Rangers. On one side nearly endless resources coming from the Far East, on the other mere will to protect WildLife. WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON? [Andy
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Reducing HEC in Udalguri A mission impossible? We at NWA do not think so! To find information to analyse the problems on hand and their implications, NWA team members started to collect data in early 2018. Based on the collected data, NWA is now developing a tailor made action plan. The Background: Udalguri districts high
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The Banana Myth From children’s books and comics, a myth has made it into so called conservation! And what a disaster! Some misguided activists have used this banana myth to solve Human Elephant Conflict. Fact is: wild Asian elephants do not eat bananas in their habitat! They do eat banana trees or rather the stem,
Statement by NWA on the untrue and libellous accusations by Assam Tribune, Rithuraj Phukan and Jayanta K.Das: We at NWA are in fact a small organisation, based in France and working in Thailand, Malaysia and India. Almost all our funding comes from the pockets of Andy Merk and we received only a few small
Recommendations for mitigation of elephant-train hit accidents in Assam and India. Meeting between Nature & Wildlife Association of France and Green Guard Nature Organization of India Date: 13/02/218 Venue: NWA Office, Thailand Attended by: NWA President Andy Merk, NWA Secretary General Lailani Fouad, Green Guard Secretary General Rituraj Phukan and its Executive Board Member Binod
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Nature & Wildlife Association is proud to be part of TAMAN NEGARA BIRD COUNT 2018 COUNT FOR FUN! COUNT FOR CONSERVATION! COUNT OF FUTURE GENERATION! 16-18 March 2018
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