YANGON, Oct. 22 (Xinhua) -- Three wild elephants breaking into paddy, corn and banana fields in Yekyi township, Myanmar's southwestern Ayeyawaddy region, has been successfully driven into forest reserve, the official Global New Light of Myanmar reported Monday.
A combined team of Myanmar Timber Enterprise's Emergency Response Units and local authorities managed to send the elephants into forest reserve after three hours' tracing on Saturday in the forest, north of Mayagon village, Laymyatnar township.
In order to find food, the three wild elephants broke into the fields on last Tuesday evening and spent for three days and four nights there, but resulted in no physical damage to human and houses, the report said.
Myanmar government has planned to conduct a 10-year action plan on elephant conservation (2018-2027), which is aimed at preventing a decrease in the number of wildlife elephants and a reduction of their pasture land.
The action plan covers protection of wild elephants and their pasture land, solving human-elephant conflict, prevention of and enforcing action against illegal trading of elephants and their body parts as well as managing tame elephants.
According to reports, the number of wild elephants in Myanmar has dropped due to fewer wild elephant corridors, a reduction of their pasture land and human-elephant conflict.
Besides, illegal hunting and wildlife trading are two of the reasons for the declination in the elephant number, the report added.
