Thoughts on (so called) conservation of Asian elephants   We need to understand that elephant conservation in Asia is entirely different from Africa. The main threat to African elephants is poaching and to a certain degree habitat loss. In Asia poaching for ivory is currently not a main problem, but there are many other serious Issues. Human...

Breaking news! Jumbo Elephant Photo Id Beta version is ready! After a long development phase and a few hick ups, Jumbo Elephant Photo Id Beta version is ready. See the demo! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uwaDoxrjII

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Developed by khaoyainews and Electric Bench, Jumbo Elephant Photo ID is a powerful tool for research, conservation and wildlife management. Using advanced image recognition enables it to identify individual elephants from photographs. Using both local and central databases (cloud) it helps to compare pictures from various source. This will lead to a huge data...

After years of researching the possibility to develop a software program to assist with identifications of individual elephants from pictures I found a developer that is specialized in this kind of application. Lots of work went into this software development in recent month and it should be ready for implementation in a few month.  

Unbelievable footage of wild elephants go shopping in the local market at Pala-U by Andy and Nani

Wild Elelphants bathing at Kaeng Krachan National Park. Bathing and drinking is always a social event. Old and young enjoy the bath and are playing together.  

Along the road from Hua Hin to Pala-U wild elephants can be seen begging for food   Even so they are not fed anymore they continue to wander along the road. if you encounter elephants on this stretch of road, please do not stop, just keep going. [caption id="attachment_7205" align="alignnone"...

Stump-tailed macaque or Macaca arctoides have very distinctive long hair. They have have pink or red faces which darken to brown or nearly black as they get older. Males are much larger than females. Stump-tailed macaques are distributed from northeastern India and southern China into the northwestern tip of West Malaysia on the Malay Peninsula. They are also...

Olive-backed Sunbird ( Cinnyris jugularis ) is endemic through out south-east Asia. Sunbirds take nectar from flowers, similar to Hummingbirds A male Olive-backed Sunbird perched on a branch. Olive-backed Sunbirds mate between April and August.     A male in breeding plumage.  

Soon after the original reforestation Gaur from Khao Yai National Park moved in. There was plenty of food between the small trees, but once the trees grew bigger, this food source started to disappear. That was when serious problems started! The Gaur left the protected area in search of food. They raided surrounding farmland. So the management had...

2 bulls are fighting. This is not a serious fight its more play. But fights can be violent and last for hours.

Khao Phaeng Ma is a reforestation project covering 8 km²  adjacent to Khao Yai National Park. There are a few hundred gaur today. They are very easy to see, almost every day.

A hot dry day in april at a small waterhole in Phu Khieo. Zosterops palpebrosus or Oriental White-eyes are cooling down from the heat. White eyes forage in small flocks, feeding on nectar and small insects. They can be easily identified by the  white eye-ring and overall yellowish upperparts.       https://youtu.be/yvYZZCyFmzA?t=2  

White-browed Scimitar Babblers enjoying a bath at a small waterhole. Pomatorhinus schisticeps natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.      

There are about 250 wild elephants in Phu Khieow Wildlife Sanctuary. They are part of a larger population of about 350 elephants migrating between Phu Khieow, Nam Nao National Park and Tat Mok National Park. Only few incidents of human elephant conflict happen in Phu Khieo , but there is an elephant poaching problem. according to official numbers about...

During dry season you can find many small mammals around small waterholes these are pictures from Phu Khieo Wildlife Sanctuary.   This is a Back-striped Weasel. Actually seeing a Back-striped Weasel is a highlight as they are very rare in Thailand.   A Northern Tree-shrew is coming for a drink. A shy Himalayan striped Tree-squirrel. Indo-Chinese Ground-squirrel checking out the waterhole.   And...

Hog Deer get their name from the hog-like running through the forests with its head down so that it can duck under obstacles instead of leaping over them like most other deer.   A mature hog deer stag stands about 70 cm at the shoulder and weighs approximately 50 kg . The antler of a  hog deer stag is  three tined-brow...

This is a Indo-Chinese Ratsnake from my garden in Khao Yai. It is a regular catching fish in my pond.

This is a Back-striped Weasel (Mustela strigidorsa). It is one of the most elusive mammals in Thailand. In Thailand they are only known to exist in Loei province and Phu Kieo Wildlife Sanctuary.

This time of the year it is very hot and dry,so wildlife and birds are visiting waterholes frequently. White-rumped Munias. Eye-browed Thrush. White-crested Laughingthrush. Yellow-throated Marten. Lineated Barbet.   Northern Treeshrew. Stripe-throated Bulbul and Blue-winged Leafbird. Blue-winged Leafbird. Puff-throated Bulbul. White-throated Rockthrush (female). Emerald Dove.

A Male Laced Woodpecker   And a Female Laced Woodpecker

A Racket-tailed Treepie posing. epie

Male Black-naped Monarch ack

Here one of the twins is lying near the mothers left foot, the second is just to the left partially obscured by the grass In order not to disturb the elephants and the danger of detection, it was not possible to get closer or take pictures from a different angle. These pictures where taken by one...