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A wild deer has been found dead in a national park in northern Thailand with seven kilograms of plastic waste and other trash in its stomach. A welcome email is on its way. The next issue of NP Posted will soon be in your inbox. Thanks for signing up! If you don’t see it, please check your junk folder. “The place we found the deer is a protected forest but it is close to human communities as well as roads where passersby sometimes litter,” he said. In June last year, a pilot whale was found dead with 80 pieces of plastic rubbish weighing eight kilograms in its stomach. By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. You may unsubscribe any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of our emails. Vets found plastic bags, used coffee and noodle packets, rubber gloves, handkerchiefs, underwear and a plastic rope in its stomach. Earlier this year an orphaned baby dugong rescued in southern Thailand died from pieces of plastic clogging her digestive system. The 10-year-old deer, weighing about 200 kilograms, was discovered by national park rangers on Monday at the Khun Sathan National Park in northern Nan province. Environmentalists say Thailand produces some two million tonnes of plastic waste a year with about 75 billion pieces of plastic bags ending up in the waste annually. An initial examination showed that the deer had died from intestinal obstruction after consuming trash over time. Officials estimate that the deer had died at least two days earlier. “When vets examined the deer’s stomach they discovered a lot of trash – most of it plastic,” said Kriangsak Thanompan, a director of the protected region in the Khun Sathan National Park. We encountered an issue signing you up. There was an error, please provide a valid email address. Last year the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation banned the use of plastic and foam in all of the country’s national parks but it has not stopped animals from dying from plastic waste. We apologize, but this video has failed to load.

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With more than 100 national parks, Thailand offers a veritable menu of adventures. Inland, you’ll find forests cloaking waterfalls, rare orchids and, occasionally, elephants. At night, nothing disturbs you save the click of cicadas, and you’re woken by the screech of gibbons at dawn. The floating restaurant serves a buffet of freshly cooked Thai curries and salads. Its Rainforest Camp is 20 safari-style tents each floating on a platform above Cheow Lan Lake in the heart of Thailand’s largest virgin rainforest. A jigsaw of limestone crags line the southern coasts, touching emerald-blue waters. Each tent has its own balcony: you can jump straight into the turquoise waters for a swim, or paddle out across the lake in your personal kayak. With all that choice, our Thailand specialists share their experiences to help you find the right park for you. You can watch a bat exodus in Khao Yai, snorkel with reef sharks in Ang Thong and hike to a cave temple in Khao Sam Roi Yot – and that’s just for starters. In Khao Sok, Elephant Hills has come up with an alternative solution. Most Thai national parks have places to stay nearby to avoid building on protected parkland. Many can be combined for an in-depth nature tour, or contrasted with time exploring a city or downtime on the beach.

The park itself was thrust up from the ocean millions of years ago, when the collision of the Indo-Australian and Eurasian plates forced a hunk of the seafloor to rise. Other activities you can join include guided hikes, kayak tours and a visit to a cave-dwelling bat colony. From Bangkok, it’s an hour-and-a-half flight to Phuket on Thailand’s southwest coast. After your stay, you’re well located to head onward to the beach, with both Krabi and Khao Lak within three hours’ reach. Here, you can help to feed and wash the resident elephants, which are being rehabilitated after working in the logging industry. Cobalt-blue waterways to sheer limestone crags crowned with rainforest. The guides will tell you that it’s more ecologically diverse than the Amazon. This has crafted a landscape that veers from lowland scrub. Elephant Hills’ representatives will meet you in the airport for the three-hour drive to the Elephant Hills Tented Camp for your first night. The camp is best visited as part of a two-night, three-day experience run by Elephant Hills, with a night at its sister property, Elephant Hills Tented Camp.

National Park At Phra Pradaeng

I’ve lost count of the times I’ve journeyed across Thailand, and after trekking through numerous national parks, I didn’t think there was much left to surprise me. My hosts were keen to talk about daily life in rural Thailand. Huai Luek Wildlife Watching Area is the last stop, and the farthest you can travel into the park. Later, I toured the village and was shown a stilted hut where the farmers take it in turns to sleep out above the crops, shining lights to ward off curious elephants. Down in the long grass, I could see a herd exceeding 40 elephants, the tiny young tucked under their mothers. The hilltop viewpoint looks down into a wide, open valley. From the village, you’re driven in an open-top 4×4, accompanied by your guide and local ranger, into the evergreen forests and grasslands of the Tenasserim Hills. You’d be unlucky not to see elephants here. My guide was eager to point out that my sighting wasn’t unique. But a trip to Kui Buri National Park left me awestruck. They explained how they were adapting their farming methods to warn elephants away safely, including the network of glass bottles they’d installed that jangle if the beasts get too close. Access is limited to a set route in the northeast of this little-visited park, near the village of Ruam Thai. At the village you can lunch with a local family. Ruam Thai village is a farming community, where a series of pineapple and rubber plantations brush against the national park boundary. Historically, there has been conflict between the farmers and elephants eager to score a free snack, and you can see a community project that enables villagers to live side-by-side with their neighbours. You might also spot the muscly gaur (the largest bovine in the world) or packs of golden jackals. In total the park protects around 320 wild elephants, the largest concentration in Thailand, and it’s the only place where you’re likely to see a wild herd. There are a number of points where the vehicle is allowed to stop, and you can clamber out to look for broken branches or dung: a sign that Kui Buri’s largest inhabitants have passed by.