Translated from Dutch NOS TV:
Herd of elephants rescued from Cambodian bomb crater
Today, 16:18
A rescue team has saved a herd of elephants after four days in an old bomb crater. The endangered animals would have been killed by hunger if villagers would not have discovered them.
The eleven animals, including a youngster, got stuck when they tried to drink from the 3 meter deep crater. The pit was made many years ago [during the Vietnam war] by a United States bombing in the country.
The elephants were freed by digging a path from the pit. Meanwhile, water was also sprayed into the hole to dilute the mud. After their rescue, the animals walked back into the woods.
The rescue of 11 Asian Elephants (Elephas maximus) from a mud hole inside the Keo Seima Wildlife Sanctuary, Mondulkiri Province, Cambodia, on 24th March 2017 avoided a tragedy for wildlife conservation in Cambodia: here.
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Too often we forget the price of war includes the animals and habitats destroyed. It’s not something we should forget, though.
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True. Even half a century after the Vietnam war, animals, and humans, still suffer and die from it.
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