Director of the Elephant Nature Park in Chiang Mai province, Saengduean Chailert, posted a video of the panic-stricken elephants splashing through muddy waters and asked the government to send urgent help. The park falls under the remit of the Save the Elephant Foundation, one of Thailand’s biggest elephant conservation NGOs. One of the foundation’s officers […]
Storm Boris proved deadly in Romania, where four people were killed during floods in the south-eastern region of Galati. Sources said in the Czech Republic, flooding has led to evacuations and 51,000 households in the country’s northern areas have been hit by power outages. Flood barriers have gone up in the capital Prague. Poland also […]
The Commissioner for the Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab, who said this in a statement in Lagos, explained that most of the enforcement actions were pre-emptive and accounted for the almost zero fatalities that would have been recorded around the state with the magnitude of rainfall it experienced. Wahab said if such steps were not […]