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RATCHABURI, 15 December 2016 (NNT) – Authorities have seized an elephant after finding its DNA did not match information indicated in its documentation.
Forestry Department official and National Animal Protection Task Force member Mongkol Chaipakdee has led a team enacting a Section 44 order to seize an elephant owned by Wichian Ngam-sanga in Ratcahburi province. The elephant was already taken into holding earlier after it was found its DNA did not match documentation.
Local authorities believe the elephant was illegally acquired and may be a wild elephant using another animal’s records. The pachyderm is to be taken to a care center in Petchburi province for the time being.
Wichian has been given the opportunity to produce the proper documentation for the elephant and seek its return. All of his elephants are being tested.