{"id":69336,"date":"2025-02-07T10:05:19","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T01:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/feb\/07\/elephant-in-the-womb-thailand-brings-in-birth-control-for-pachyderms"},"modified":"2025-02-07T10:05:19","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T01:05:19","slug":"elephant-in-the-womb-thailand-brings-in-birth-control-for-pachyderms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=69336","title":{"rendered":"Elephant in the womb? Thailand brings in birth control for pachyderms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities are hoping to to slow population growth and curb conflict with humans<\/p>\n<p>Thailand will begin giving birth control to a small number of wild female elephants this year, as the country struggles with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2021\/nov\/13\/the-elephant-in-the-room-a-thai-villages-unwelcome-guests-aoe\">growing problem of human-elephant conflict<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Asian elephants have been classified as endangered since 1986. But Thai authorities say that conservation efforts mean the country\u2019s population is growing at a rate of 8% each year, overwhelming its depleted forests. This has caused the animals to increasingly stray into nearby populated areas, causing damage to farmland, homes and even deaths.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/feb\/07\/elephant-in-the-womb-thailand-brings-in-birth-control-for-pachyderms\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities are hoping to to slow population growth and curb conflict with humansThailand will begin giving birth control to a small number of wild female elephants this year, as the country struggles with the growing problem of human-elephant conflict&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1142,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[265,41,65,93,94,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-asia-pacific","category-environment","category-thailand","category-wildlife","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69337,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69336\/revisions\/69337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}