"Zoo"

The Sriracha Tiger Zoo in Chonburi province has announced the sale of 11 elephants on Facebook, as part of its bid to generate money to heal its financial losses.

Sriracha Tiger Zoo in Chonburi province posted on its Facebook page that it was closing down permanently from Friday, 24 years since it opened.

The Chiang Mai Night Safari deployed a water-spraying truck on Tuesday in a bid to protect its animals from heat and thick smog caused by forest fires in the North.

A baby pygmy hippopotamus born last month at Chon Buri’s Khao Kheow Open Zoo made its first appearance in public on Thursday.

Miss Thailand contestants on Tuesday made the most of wildlife at the Tiger Kingdom in Chiang Mai’s Mae Rim district and at the Night Safari Zoo in Hang Dong district.

The Songkhla Provincial Court on Thursday (October 8) issued an arrest warrant for Kosin Rattanawiboon, a former official of Songkhla Zoo, for allegedly stealing a rhinoceros horn from the Faculty of Science, Prince of Songkla University, Hat Yai campus, back in 2013.

Forensic examination of the bone of an animal found in May, establishes that it belonged to a barking deer but was inconclusive on whether it was albino species.

The Environment and Natural Resources Ministry is investigating the suspected murder of a top zoological park official on Saturday by a Songkhla Zoo staff, minister Varawut Silpa-acha said.

In a shocking incident, the director-general of the Zoological Park Organisation of Thailand was allegedly shot dead by a Songkhla Zoo staff on Saturday, while he was investigating the case of a missing albino barking deer.

An investigation has been launched over a missing albino barking deer from Songkhla Zoo after the zoo director reported that the animal was swallowed by a python.

With many Thais still suffering financially from the virus crisis, holidays in provinces where food and accommodation is cheap are especially appealing. Phetchaburi province is one destination to be recommended, as I discovered recently.

Chiang Mai Night Safari is offering free entry to visitors from July 1 to 15 and 50 per cent discount from July 16 to 30 as it reopens after the months-long lockdown.