Artificial insemination for elephants

On March 7, 2007, the Thai scientific community excited the lovers of elephants with the event that the first artificial insemination elephant was born in Asia. His mother's name, Kaud, 25, was helped by a team of experts from the Thai National Institute of Elephant Medicine, Kasetsar University's Department of Veterinary Medicine and Chieng Mai University in conjunction with the Elephant Research Center in Surin province. pregnant since June 2005.

Previously, a group of veterinary experts under the direction of Dr. Thomas Hildebrandt successfully performed the first artificial insemination of artificial insemination in Berlin (Germany) in January 2002.

Taking the male elephant's sperm is very difficult : Anesthesia, stimulation by electronic method and then return it to the right time to release sperm. With female elephants - the uterus that is a meter deep under the thick, hard flesh, Dr. Thomas Hildebrandt and his colleagues used a soft plastic tube attached to an electronic vibrator with an ultrasound system inserted into the elephant's body It helps to prevent pain but is stimulated when artificial insemination takes place.

It is reported that an international grant of 6 million USD for the Vietnam Elephant Conservation Program has been poured into, and is expected to allocate funds for the construction of 3 elephant conservation areas in Nghe An, Dak Lak and Dong Nai.

In Dak Lak there are only about 60 elephants left (Photo: TP)

Many experts believe that, if funding is poured in the right place, the right people, Vietnamese scientists on the basis of inheriting the experience of the preceding people will not take too much time to experiment successfully on human insemination. created for elephants.

Please hunt elephants

The situation of wild elephants declining rapidly in numbers is clear. The most abundant is the South of India, which is still under 1,500 thousand. Countries like Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Srilanka, Laos all have about 1,000 to 5,000 children. Cambodia has about 200-500 children. Vietnam only has more than 100 children.

A booklet of nearly a hundred pages has just been born, which is a volume of 'Documents for the development of the Biodiversity Law' of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, including a proposal: The State encourages domesticated and breeding wild species; Anyone who intends to tame or breed wild species according to the State's special protection list will be licensed .

From this bill, it is hoped that in the near future, elephant hunting will be restored and preserved as the elephant itself is preserved. The only problem is that the waiting time is not so long that those who are good at the job are no longer able to hunt elephants anymore.

HTN