More lifeless elephants found in the "cascade of death" | Chronic

The bodies of five elephants were found near the eastern waterfall of Thailand, where six other members of the same herd died last Saturday, were also found dead, reported Tuesday the Department of National Parks. Thailand.

The remains of these large wild mammals were in a pond downstream and about 2 kilometers from where the first group of dead elephants was.

"We assume that elephants are members of the same group"he told the EFE agency Witthaya Hongwiangchan, Director of Protected Areas in Prachinburi Province, where Khao Yai National Park is located.

The latest discovery, made with the use of drones that examined the course of the river, coincides with the tasks of recovering the bodies of animals.

The first dead elephants were discovered on Saturday morning, hours after the pack was afraid of being near a national highway.

The first hypotheses suggest that an elephant fell into the cliff and the others rushed into the throat trying to help the pack members.

A group of rangers then deployed a gigantic braided net with ropes to a point located down the river below, where lifeless animal bodies are currently being found to retrieve them once they've been there. arrived.

"One of the elephants fell into the cliff and the others rushed into the throat trying to help the pack members."

According to national park forecasts, the bodies will arrive between Friday and Saturday, but they could be advanced in case of heavy rains in the region.

Near the armed device intended to lift corpses, there is a vast area where it is planned to organize a religious ritual and to incinerate the bodies of pachyderms.

Two other members of the same group were rescued alive and returned to their habitat after being trapped near the Haew Narok waterfall, about 80 meters high, whose translation into Spanish would be "the abyss of hell".

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In 1992, a similar incident occurred in which 8 elephants lost their lives.

According to animal protection groups, some 3,000 wild elephants live in Thai forests threatened by increasing deforestation, compared to the 300,000 pachyderms that populated the country more than a century ago.

Formerly, thousands of elephants were used in the timber industry, but when the activity was banned in 1989, pachyderms began to be posted on the streets to beg for the same. alms and used in shows for tourism.