• Pattaya
  • Thailand
  • COVID-19 Update
  • What’s On
  • Sports
  • All Sections
Search
29.6 C
Pattaya
Wednesday, August 17, 2022
Pattaya Mail
  • Pattaya
  • Thailand
  • COVID-19 Update
  • What’s On
  • Sports
  • All Sections
      • Arts & Entertainment

        • Arts & Entertainment
        • Books
        • Classical Connections
        • Life at 33 1/3
        • Mott the Dog
        • Movies
        • Music
        • TV Guide
      • Autos

        • Auto Mania
        • Motoring
      • Business

        • Business News
        • Money Matters
      • Cartoons

        • Dorian Farmer
        • It is What It is
        • Life in Fun City
        • Life with Bingo
        • Wombania
      • Community

        • Around Town
        • Education
        • Features
        • Our Community
        • What’s On
      • Health

        • Health & Wellbeing
        • Modern Medicine
      • Letters

        • Mail Bag
        • Obituaries
      • Lifestyle

        • Care for Animals
        • Coins of the Realm
        • Daily Horoscope
        • Dining Out
        • Heart to Heart with Hillary
        • Khun Ocha’s Cookbook
        • Snap Shots
        • Wine World
        • Agony Ivy’s Pattaya Postbag
      • News

        • Pattaya
        • Thailand
        • World
        • Travel & Tourism
        • Baywatch
        • Grapevine
        • Odds and Ends
        • Today in History
      • Real Estate

        • GO Property of the Day
        • Property & Real Estate
      • Sports

        • Pattaya Sports
        • PSC Golf Schedule
        • World Sports
      • Tech & Science

        • Science & Nature
        • Technology
      • What’s On in Pattaya & East Thailand

        • Assoc. & Clubs
        • Community Services
        • Conventions
        • Exhibitions
        • Dining & Entertainment
        • Education
        • Events & Festivals
        • Health
        • Hotels & Spa
        • Seminars
        • Shopping
      • All Time Favorites

        Chiangmai Mail

        Pattaya Mail

        HM King Rama IX

        • Classifieds
        • Archive
        • E-PAPER

        • E-Paper 1
        • Support Pattaya Mail – Click Here
      • Getting Help

        • Embassies in Thailand
Home Blogs & Features Safari World faces floods with animals sharing same fate
  • Blogs & Features

Safari World faces floods with animals sharing same fate

By
pm
-
November 8, 2011
0
1060
Share on Facebook
Tweet on Twitter
  • tweet

Thailand’s ‘Safari World’ open zoo and leisure park is among many places that have been damaged by floods. Although the damage doesn’t cover its entire area, the site was finally closed temporarily due to all the inconveniences the floodwaters have caused.

Located in Klong Sam Wa district in northeast Bangkok, Safari World received overflowing water from Klong Sam Wa on Thursday night. The flood covered almost half of the zoo and park premises of some 500 rai of land, blocking all roads visitors use to watch the wildlife.

Almost the entirety of ‘Safari Park’, an open zoo, occupying the periphery and accounting for 50 per cent of Safari World, has been engulfed by floodwater of about one metre deep, while ‘Marine Park’, inside the complex, which occupies the rest of the area is still dry and has remained above water.

As a result of the flood, some animals from the open zoo, such as giraffes, rhinoceros, and zebras were moved to higher ground there, while others were relocated to temporarily be ‘housed’ in the Marine Park area, where the ground is about 1.5 metres higher.

The attempt to save the Marine Park by putting up sandbags, installing water pumps along with other measures is because the value of animals’ lives is beyond calculation, whereas the machines used for looking after marine life are worth about Bt400 million.

Zoo executive vice president Litti Kewkacha said Safari World was prepared to deal with floodwaters and believed the situation will not worsen, as the water level has not risen.

Animal feeds are in stock to last for up to two months, and so far the animals there are still healthy, Litti said, despite the fact that their jam-packed living condition in the dry space can affect their health.

However, he insisted he would not move his animals to other places, for he cared for the animals’ well-being and was concerned that tools and equipment used to look after animals elsewhere would not be as of good quality as those at Safari World.

“Although other areas can provide shelter for these animals, some of them can’t live together because of their nature; for example, giraffes. This is their home. Safari World’s giraffes can’t live with giraffes from somewhere else. You’ll need to build stalls for them anyway,” said the zoo executive vice president.

“Animals feel like us humans, and they can be even more stressed when living outside their homes,” Litti said.

Many employees are affected by the flood as well. They have moved to stay at the zoo’s office temporarily.

During this crisis, initial revenue losses are estimated at Bt150 million from the service closure. The figure hasn’t yet included the lives of animals and the cost of replacing trees.

Safari World opened in 1988 and receives visitors from all over the world. It houses over a thousand of wild fauna and other animals from around the world at Safari Park, during normal situations, while the Marine Park has about 60,000 marine creatures and 10,000 birds.

Shares for the open zoo and leisure park were listed on the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) in 1995 to become the first and only park listed on the country’s bourse.

  • TAGS
  • Bangkok
  • blocking
  • Klong Sam Wa
  • Litti Kewkacha
  • Marine Park
  • open zoo
  • overflowing water
  • Safari World
  • SET
  • Thai Flood
  • Thailand
  • Wildlife
SHARE
Facebook
Twitter
  • tweet
Previous articleDo-It-Yourself items help fighting flood
Next articleMiss International Queen crown returns to Thailand
pm
http://www.pattayamail.com

RELATED ARTICLESMORE FROM AUTHOR

All Time Favorites

Pattaya photostory: August 2022

Around Pattaya & the East

BCCT Women in Business Networking Evening at Kimpton Maa-Lai Bangkok

Arts & Entertainment

Life at 33⅓: The album classics of 1968

Latest Stories

Southern Thailand bombing scenes examined

Pattaya Mail - August 17, 2022
0
Officials examined convenience stores that were bombed at gas stations in three southern border provinces last night while the prime minister condemned attackers and...

Bomb and arson attacks hit gas stations, stores in 3 southern border provinces of...

Pattaya Mail - August 17, 2022
0
Gas stations and convenience stores were either bombed or set ablaze in the southern border provinces of Narathiwat, Pattani and Yala around midnight last...

Chicken egg price in Thailand rises for 2nd time in 1 month

Pattaya Mail - August 17, 2022
0
Layer farmers’ cooperatives raised the ex-farm price of their chicken eggs in mixed sizes by 0.10 baht to 3.60 baht per egg equivalent to...

Thai poll shows more lax social distancing among general public

Pattaya Mail - August 17, 2022
0
Thai people have become less cautious about COVID-19, according to a survey, while the numbers of daily Covid hospitalizations and deaths have started to...

Thai Cabinet approves more economic measures to boost recovery

Pattaya Mail - August 17, 2022
0
The Cabinet on Tuesday approved a set of measures to address Thailand’s economic crisis driven by the rising fuel prices and shortage in farming...
  • Contact Us
  • Advertise
  • Feedback
© 2016 Pattaya Mail Publishing Co., Ltd. All Rights Reserved.
MORE STORIES

Hooters makes it a ‘Happy Easter’ for Ban Jing Jai children

Blogs & Features April 11, 2016
The visitors from Bangkok were welcomed by Father Peter.

From Babylon to Pattaya

Blogs & Features July 8, 2015