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Associated Press

Six baby elephants, trapped in a mud hole and separated from their parents, have been rescued by a team of park rangers in northeastern Thailand.
The rangers came across the elephant calves on Wednesday afternoon as they were struggling to climb the pit’s slippery banks, according to officials of Thap Lan National Park.


Some of the rangers went for help, while others spent the night with the baby elephants.
On Thursday, as the elephants wallowed together at one side of the pit, rangers at the other side spent four hours using hoes and pickaxes to dig out enough mud to form a ramp.
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Video of the great elephant escape released by the Department of National Parks shows the animals climbing out of the muck and quickly heading into the forest, a few dozen metres away.
The rangers cheer the elephants on, with comments like “Go, go on, child!”

One elephant struggles, slips and falls, but finally all make it out of the muck.
The last of the animals then lingers, after all the others have made it past the tree line. It faces the rangers for a moment, turns, pauses and finally runs into the jungle.
Jail for Chinese ‘Ivory Queen’. Her network killed ‘thousands of elephants’
“Gone, they’re gone,” cries a ranger, as the rescue crew comes together to celebrate.

Park chief Prawatsart Chantep said there were signs that a herd of elephants believed to be related to the trapped infants was circling the area.
Blood of 3,000 elephants, 65,000 pangolins on Hong Kong’s hands
Elephants are the official national animal of Thailand, and for a time graced the country’s flag when it was still called Siam.

Development has sharply reduced their natural habitat and shrunk their numbers. They are notorious for raiding farmers’ fields for food, especially sugar cane.
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Several people are killed each year by angry elephants. Last November, a driver on a road near another park in the northeast struck the hind legs of one when it wandered out of the jungle at dusk. The animal responded by stomping on the car, destroying the engine and killing the driver.


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Cheers as six baby elephants, trapped in mudhole, are rescued by rangers in Thailand

In this photo released by Thailand’s Department of Natural Park, Wildlife, and Plant Conservation on Thursday, Trangers prepare to extract six baby elephants stuck in a muddy pond at Thap Lan National Park, northeastern Thailand. Photo: AP

In this photo taken and released by the Department of Natural Park, Wildlife, and Plant Conservation Thursday, March 28, 2019, Thap Lan National Park rangers prepare to extract six baby elephants stuck in a muddy pond at Thap Lan National Park, Nakhon Ratchasima province, in northeastern Thailand. Park rangers took five hours to dig out a path to save six elephant calves after they were found trapped in a muddy pond. (Department of Natural Park, Wildlife, and Plant Conservation via AP)

In this photo taken and released by the Department of Natural Park, Wildlife, and Plant Conservation Thursday, March 28, 2019, Thap Lan National Park rangers prepare to extract six baby elephants stuck in a muddy pond at Thap Lan National Park, Nakhon Ratchasima province, northeastern Thailand. Park rangers took five hours to dig out a path to save six elephant calves after they were found trapped in a muddy pond. (Department of Natural Park, Wildlife, and Plant Conservation via AP)

In this photo taken and released by the Department of Natural Park, Wildlife, and Plant Conservation Thursday, March 28, 2019, two of six baby elephants are stuck in a muddy pond in the Thap Lan National Park, Nakhon Ratchasima province, northeastern Thailand. Park rangers took five hours to dig out a path to save six elephant calves after they were found trapped in the pond. (Department of Natural Park, Wildlife, and Plant Conservation via AP)

Sanctuary plan for Myanmar elephants in captivity to save them from conflict or performing for tourists

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Confiscated elephant ivory and illegally harvested wildlife parts are displayed before their destruction at Zoological Garden in Yangon, Myanmar March 3, 2019. REUTERS/Myat Thu Kyaw NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVE

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Chinese ‘Ivory Queen’ Yang Fenglan is jailed for 15 years in Tanzania. Thousands of elephants were slaughtered to fuel her rampant smuggling, activists say

Chinese national Yang Fenlan (centre) is led away by guards in Dar es Salaam on Tuesday. She was jailed for 15 years for her role in trafficking tusks from more than 400 elephants. Photo: AFP

Hong Kong customs seized 569 pieces of ivory tusks Thursday. The haul originating from the port of Tanzania was the third such shipment this year. AFCD official estimates a 150 elephants were killed to obtain roughly 1330 kilos of unpolished ivory for the decorative arts trade.16NOV12

A shipment of African ivory seized three years ago, is displayed before they are destroyed in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2016. The ivory was traced to northern Mozambique and Tanzania and has been valued by Sri Lankan customs at 368 million rupees (more than $2.5 million). The 359 tusks weighing a total of 1,529 kilograms (3,370 pounds) were crushed by machines into smaller pieces that will later be burned to ash in high-temperature ovens at a cement factory. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

Customs urged to step up prosecutions in illegal wildlife trade – with blood of 3,000 elephants, 65,000 pangolins and 51 rhinoceros on Hong Kong’s hands

Endangered animal parts seized by Hong Kong customs in Kwai Chung. Photo: K. Y. Cheng

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epa06997841 Seized bags of dried pangolin scales are displayed during a press presentation at Kwai Chung Customhouse in Hong Kong, China, 05 September 2018. Hong Kong Customs and the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department (AFCD) mounted a 10-week joint anti-endangered species smuggling operation at the airport, seaport, land boundary and railway control points from June to August this year. Customs seized a total of 63 tonnes of suspected endangered tree logs, seven tonnes of pangolin scales and 25 kilograms of worked ivory, among other items. EPA-EFE/JEROME FAVRE

Seized Ivory scales seen at a Customs presser with AFCD (Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department) on endangered spices smuggling, to conclude a 2-month operations to combat smuggling activities related to endangered spices, at the Customs Headquarters in Kwai Chung. 05SEP18 SCMP/ K. Y. Cheng

Record ivory haul in Cambodia lays bare horrible fate of nearly 500 elephants

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Rangers built a ramp to release the trapped elephants, who ran into the forest where their parents were thought to be circling the area


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Cheers as six baby elephants, trapped in mudhole, are rescued by rangers in Thailand

.css-1mniedq{color:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-family:inherit;line-height:inherit;}Rangers built a ramp to release the trapped elephants, who ran into the forest where their parents were thought to be circling the area

Rangers built a ramp to release the trapped elephants, who ran into the forest where their parents were thought to be circling the area