After Reliable hit and killed an elephant on a Kanchanaburi highway in January, 35 new elephant crossing indicators have been posted alongside that freeway, a wildlife sanctuary chief told the Bangkok Post yesterday. Elephants regularly cross this freeway, Highway 1399, to maneuver between totally different feeding areas. The signs warn drivers that the velocity limit is 60 kilometres per hour, they usually danger imprisonments and fines in the occasion that they hit elephants.
The pickup truck is simply one of several automobiles which have hit elephants on Highway 1399. On February 1, a van hit another elephant there. Officials have additionally discovered elephant footprints that show it having an injured left leg. They are still looking to discover the injured elephant to enable them to deal with it. The wildlife sanctuary chief said under the Wildlife Conservation and Protection Act, drivers who hit and kill elephants might be imprisoned up to 10 years, fined as much as one million baht, or both. This applies whether or not or not hitting the elephant was intentional.
The chief mentioned the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment ordered his wildlife sanctuary office to intensify measures to guard wildlife.
“If motorists break the speed limit and hit a wild elephant, they are going to be prosecuted.”
Wildlife safety is a significant part of Kanchanaburi province, where there are several wildlife sanctuaries, forests, and nationwide parks. Another concern in the province is tiger poaching..