Thailand to build DNA database to protect elephants

26 January 2012, 8:51 pm

Thailand Natural Resources and Environment Minister Preecha Rengsomboonsuk has vowed to solve within a year issues related to Thailand 's elephant s. Preecha planned to build a DNA database on 4,000 or so domesticated elephant s in order to stop people taking over identity papers of deceased pachyderms and replacing them with elephant s taken in the wild.... Read More »

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