The published survey of game preservation in Burma during 1938-39 records that while the game warden was in camp near a village, a rhinoceros walked to within 9ft of his clerk’s table, giving an old villager a fright. The animal itself showed no fear, perhaps because it had not encountered human beings before, the jungle not having been visited by Burmese villagers for many years. The report adds that during the year 136 elephants were caught in kheddahs —stockades used for rounding them up—636 were shot by game rangers, and 32 by sportsmen or villagers defending their property. Il is necessary to keep the number of elephants in Burma down to manageable proportions, as otherwise there is a danger of crops being raided and destroyed.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 July 1940, Page 7
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