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(From Thai Press Reports)
Section: General News - A Thai non-governmental organization working to protect elephants plans to petition the Australian embassy in Bangkok Monday, asking for its suspension of importing eight Thai elephants on an exchange programme until it can be proved that the Australia-bound elephants are home-bred, not from the wild.
Soraida Salwala, founder of the Friends of the Asian Elephant Foundation, said the foundation and its allies will submit their petition to the Australian ambassador at 9am Monday asking to suspend the shipment of eight elephants to Australia on the grounds that the doubts over the pachyderms' geographic origin …