A baby elephant was trapped in the well in Way Kambas NP on 6th March 2007 by the closing wells team. It is located near Braja Yekti village or about 12 km fro elephant training center. The baby elephant female, approx 3 years old, 500 kg, fell to the 3 meter old well and guess stayed in well during 7-10 days. Her condition was really bad, severe dehydration, wound around the body and lacerated wound on leg, paralysis in hind legs and can’t standing. WCS and the partner of WKNP rescued this female by using truck form the well and also tame elephant.

Since June 2007, WCS have closed some of the well in those area, but it stopped in November 2007. With our limited budget, we did only 213 wells. Right now, there are about 2500-3000 well in the southern part of WKNP and also about 500-800 wells in the northern part.

From our data, there were 5 calves that trapped since 2006. Three survived and being moved to elephant training center in WKNP. If we can have emergency money for helping the NP for closing the wells, that might be a good option for continuing our work for closing the wells.

This time, the baby elephant named Sakura, stayed in Elephant camp for intensive care monitoring, our plan is checking with the x-ray on back legs to make sure no fracture there. This is the second incident. The first incident happened in 22February 2008, but we can save that baby elephant and we bring it back to its herds. The first incident is not too far from thelast one (2.4 km see the attachment on the map).

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