{"id":365929,"date":"2026-03-30T14:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T14:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/365929\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T14:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T14:08:10","slug":"bangkok-post-wild-elephant-crosses-mekong-river-into-laos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/365929\/","title":{"rendered":"Bangkok Post &#8211; Wild elephant crosses Mekong River into Laos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PUBLISHED : 30 Mar 2026 at 10:23<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/c1_3226964_800.jpg\"   alt=\"The wild elephant is seen crossing the Mekong River from Bueng Kan province into Laos on Sunday morning. (Photo: Phuwua Wildlife Sanctuary)\" class=\"img-fluid\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe wild elephant is seen crossing the Mekong River from Bueng Kan province into Laos on  Sunday morning. (Photo: Phuwua Wildlife Sanctuary)\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>BUENG KAN &#8211;\u00a0 Phuwua Wildlife Sanctuary rangers are waiting anxiously on the bank of the Mekong River for the return of a wild elephant that crossed the river into Laos on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Wisanu Kumpa, chief of the wildlife sanctuary, said the elephant had earlier fed off farmland at Ban Tha Dok Kham in Bueng Khong Long district. It then crossed Highway 212 and walked to the Mekong River near the estuary with Huai Na Khok stream. This is 1.2 kilometres from the wildlife sanctuary.<\/p>\n<p>The elephant then crossed the river about 6am on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOfficials of Phuwua Wildlife Sanctuary are waiting at the bank of the Mekong River to ensure the safe return of this wild elephant to the Thai side,\u201d Mr Wisanu said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PUBLISHED : 30 Mar 2026 at 10:23 The wild elephant is seen crossing the Mekong River from Bueng&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365930,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[176403,176402,176405,85,46,176406,176401,141,176407,176400,386,176404],"class_list":["post-365929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-bueng-khong-long-district","tag-elephant-crossing-thailand","tag-elephant-return-thailand","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-mekong-river-wildlife","tag-phuwua-wildlife-sanctuary","tag-science","tag-thai-wildlife-news","tag-wild-elephant-mekong-river","tag-wildlife","tag-wildlife-sanctuary-officials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}