Veterinarians from the regional Emergency Elephant Response Unit adopted the calf, but she only survived for 23 days, dying of diarrheal disease on July 3 at the Thayet-san elephant camp in Irrawaddy Division.
The public showed great sympathy toward the elephant, and her death reminded the country’s policymakers of the importance of conserving the country’s wild elephant population and their habitats that have shrunk as a result of human encroachment.
Burma is home to 4-5,000 wild Asian elephants, as well as the world’s largest captive elephant population, which has seen a dramatic decline over the past few decades due to illegal poaching and an ongoing human-elephant conflict.
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