Rogue elephants terrorise Dong Nai

VNS

April 25, 2009

DONG NAI — A herd of wild elephants recently gone astray is becoming increasingly bolder, encroaching on inhabited land in southern Dong Nai Province’s Vinh Cuu District, according to officials.

The 13 elephants, which are being kept unfenced in Cat Tien National Park in Central Highland province of Lam Dong, left the park in search of food, Tran Van Mui, the park director, has said.

According to local residents, the elephants have grown increasingly bolder, from foraging for crops in 2007, when they first appeared, to trespassing on villages and destroying houses last year.

This year, the herd appeared every day during the fist 10 days of March, both night and day, trampling fields and damaging houses after devouring fields of plants.

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