Myanmar: Wild Elephants Destroy Plantations in Myanmar's Western State

Nov 26, 2019 | Xinhua
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On Oct. 21 this year, three houses were destroyed by two wild elephants' raid in the same township. It was learnt that wild elephant raids are frequent, destroying houses, fields and plantations in Gwa township, Rakhine state.
The number of wild elephants in Myanmar has dropped due to fewer wild elephant corridors, reduction of their pasture land and human-elephant conflict while illegal hunting and wildlife trading are also blamed for the decline in the elephant number.