LAND OF MILLION ELEPHANTS

Laos is known as "Land of Million Elephants" for years.Unfortunately Laos doesn't have that many elephants anymore.Through the long history Laos used to be called "Lane Xang"which can be translate to be "Land of Million Elephants".It was named as Lane Xang by the king Fa Ngum in 1354.The reason is that he capital of the kingdom was Luang Prabang and it was surrounded by large grazing pasture With wild heads of elephants lived there.Apart from that another reason is that the elephants that used as the principal engines of war and the main means of transportation for laos royal family back in ancient time.Asian elephants loved to live in laos because there used to have extensive forest and crops to live on and there was a sparse human population.
However in modern days the wars and bombs are scared the elephants away the loss of natural habitat like the expansion of settlements,agriculture and industrial infrastructure the trade of the ivory and the forest have being cut down which is resulting less food.So the elephants population in Laos dwindling fast now laos only have about 700 elephants left in the wild and there are only about 400 domesticated elephants with an increase in demand for elephants by the logging industry the animals are made to work at a furious pace .They are over worked and exhausted and a result cannot reproduce so there is therefore an urgent need to safeguard the remaining elephants and create a breeding programme for them.

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