Elephant and caretaker stops to buy jewellery from stand

An elephant and his caretaker stopped to buy jewellery from a vendor's stand on the way home in Udon Thani province, Thailand on September 20.

As of 2023, there are an estimated 3,084-3,500 wild elephants in Thailand. The population has been increasing in recent years, but it is still a fraction of the estimated 300,000 wild elephants that lived in Thailand at the beginning of the 20th century. The main threats to wild elephants in Thailand are habitat loss and fragmentation, poaching, and conflict with humans.