Poll shows people favour restriction on visits to national parks

BANGKOK: -- Most people want a time restriction for visitors to enter and leave national parks as a means to avoid potentially dangerous confrontation between humans and wild elephants.

Nida Poll sampled the opinions of 1,251 people during January 14-15 about the problem between humans and elephants in national parks. The poll shows 48.84 percent of the respondents want a restriction on the time for visitors to visit and leave national parks whereas 26.86 percent want a restriction on the foraging ground of the elephants.

The poll also shows the following results: 21.98 percent want a ban of private cars; 13.11 percent want parks to be off-limits to humans and 11.83 percent want a set limit on the number of visitors.

Regarding the problem of elephants damaging farm products, the poll shows 48.84 percent of respondents want a restriction on the animals’ hunting ground and 45.40 percent want farming to be banned near parks.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/poll-shows-people-favour-restriction-visits-national-parks

-- Thai PBS 2015-01-18

Bloody hell .... Three polls in one day. Land of Polls - First the UK now Thailand.

100% of TV viewers want to ban Thai polls.

Poll shows: Thai people want to stop getting money form ripping off farangs for visiting a land with trees.

My Poll shows: I don't care.

Elephants hunt??? You learn something new every day

What the poll shows is that most if not all of those polled no nothing about national parks other than what they have read in the news.

There are only 2 national parks where elephants are likely to be encountered on the roads, 2 out of 127.

In fact most of the national parks don't have wild elephants.

There are also only a few isolated spots where elephants are a problem to villages or farmers and these can easily be dealt with by low voltage electric fences as used in other countries on sheep and cattle farms, a low cost effective way of keeping the elephants out of the farms and villages that only needs cooperation between the parks and the people.

To consider closing all national parks because of a problem in one is nonsense, yes it is only in one where there has been a well publicised problem, and then only with one elephant.

Elephants hunt??? You learn something new every day

You must have seen that Utube clip of that bull elephant stalking and successfully killing that Toyota Vios.