Elephant locations in Myanmar

32 locations has kept elephants in Myanmar

There is presently 2820 (8,20) living elephants in locations in Myanmar in this database

Myanmar
Region:	Myanmar is in this database included in asia
Wild elephants:	Myanmar has about 1619 (min. 1181, max. 2056) wild elephants. Source:Leimgruber et al. (2011)
Location holdings:	32 locations has kept 4839 elephants in Myanmar (Database tables with collection of elephants further down on the page)
Elephants in locations	2820 (8,20) living 2019 (3,12) dead

Earlier figures: 3,000-4,000 (Sukumar), earlier 4 000-6 000 (Santiapillai, IUCN 1996)

Most large herds live in forested hills by the borders with Bangladesh, India, China, and Thailand. Wild capture was banned in 1994, but captives are still taken to join 4,500 working elephants in logging camps.

Myanmar has some 5000 wild elephants, and has around 2,800 registered working elephants in the timber industry, belonging to a single government logging agency, the Myanma Timber Enterprise (MTE), and perhaps another 4,000 privately owned domesticated animals.(IUCN’s Species Survival Commission’s Asian Elephant Specialist Group)

Recommended Citation

Koehl, Dan, Facts about elephants in Myanmar. Elephant Encyclopedia, (2024) available online retrieved 2024-11-09 at https://www.elephant.se/country.php?name=Myanmar.
(archived at the Wayback machine)

Sources, among others

Current status of elephants in Myanmar, by Leimgruber et al. (2011), http://www.asesg.org/gajah35.htm">Gajah nr 35, 2012. (Journal of the IUCN/SSC Asian Elephant Specialist Group)

THE DEMOGRAPHY AND LIFE HISTORY STRATEGIES OF TIMBER ELEPHANTS IN MYANMAR, by Khyne U Mar, 2007, page 41, https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1446021/1/U593347%20redacted.PDF

Internal relevant links

The elephant database startpage. Statistics
News about elephants in Myanmar (From the sister site Elephant News)

Name	Elephant collection				Place
Amerapoora Palace of the White Elephant (camp) Kept totally 1 elephants	, 0 present (0,0)	0 births	0 relocated	1 deaths	Mandalay
Ayeyarwady Region (wild) Kept totally 2 elephants	, 0 present (0,0)	2 births	1 relocated	1 deaths	(map) Ayeyarwady Region
Bombay Burmah Trading Corporation (BBTC) (camp) Kept totally 2004 elephants	, 0 present (0,0)	2 births	0 relocated	2004 deaths	Rangoon
Bombay Lumber Company (camp) Kept totally 1 elephants	, 0 present (0,0)	0 births	1 relocated	0 deaths
Burma Forest Department (camp) Kept totally 4 elephants	, 0 present (0,0)	2 births	0 relocated	4 deaths
Green Hill Valley elephant sanctuary (sanctuary) Kept totally 8 elephants	, 6 present (1,5)	0 births	0 relocated	2 deaths	Kalaw (map)Taunggyi District Southern Shan State
Htar Wai elephant camp (camp) Kept totally 2 elephants	, 0 present (0,0)	0 births	2 relocated	0 deaths
Kachin Independence Army elephant training camp (camp) Kept totally 0 elephants	, 0 present (0,0)	0 births	0 relocated	0 deaths	Hukawng Valley Kachin
King Thibaw Min of Burmah (private) Kept totally 1 elephants	, 0 present (0,0)	0 births	1 relocated	0 deaths	Mandalay (map)Mandalay District Shan State Mandalay Region
MacGregor and Co (private) Kept totally 1 elephants	, 0 present (0,0)	0 births	0 relocated	1 deaths	Rangoon
Magwe elephant camp (camp) Kept totally 0 elephants	, 0 present (0,0)	0 births	0 relocated	0 deaths	Magwe Magwe
Mahamyaing Elephant Camp (camp) Kept totally 0 elephants	, 0 present (0,0)	0 births	0 relocated	0 deaths
Mandalay zoological garden (zoo) Kept totally 2 elephants	, 2 present (0,0)	0 births	0 relocated	0 deaths	Mandalay
Myaing Hay Wun elephant ground (camp) Kept totally 32 elephants	, 32 present (1,0)	0 births	0 relocated	0 deaths	Taikkyi, Yangon division (map)
Myanmar Timber Enterprise (MTE) (organization) Kept totally 2746 elephants	, 2725 present (0,0)	0 births	21 relocated	0 deaths	Yangon (map)
Myanmar unspecified location (camp) Kept totally 25 elephants	, 0 present (0,0)	2826 births	25 relocated	0 deaths
Nat Pauk Elephant Camp (camp) Kept totally 0 elephants	, 0 present (0,0)	0 births	0 relocated	0 deaths	Indaw (map)Katha District Sagaing Division northern Burma
Naypyidaw Zoo (Nay Pyi Taw Zoo) (zoo) Kept totally 9 elephants	, 9 present (1,2)	2 births	0 relocated	0 deaths	Naypyidaw
Ngwesaung Elephant Camp (camp) Kept totally 15 elephants	, 15 present (0,0)	0 births	0 relocated	0 deaths	Pathein District
Pho Kyar elephant camp (MTE) (camp) Kept totally 6 elephants	, 6 present (0,0)	0 births	0 relocated	0 deaths	Thargara Bago
Port of Rangoon (seaport) Kept totally 7 elephants	, 0 present (0,0)	0 births	7 relocated	0 deaths	Rangoon (map)
Rakhine State unspecified location (private) Kept totally 1 elephants	, 0 present (0,0)	1 births	1 relocated	0 deaths	(map) South Western Myanmar
Rakhine Timber Enterprise (MTE) elephant camp (camp) Kept totally 2 elephants	, 2 present (1,1)	1 births	0 relocated	0 deaths
Saw Durmay (Po Min) (private) Kept totally 4 elephants	, 0 present (0,0)	0 births	3 relocated	1 deaths	Toungoo
Sein Ye forest camp (camp) Kept totally 0 elephants	, 0 present (0,0)	0 births	0 relocated	0 deaths	Oaktwin Bago division
Steel Brothers Burma Trading Company Ltd (camp) Kept totally 1 elephants	, 0 present (0,0)	0 births	1 relocated	0 deaths	Rangoon
Tharyawady forest division (camp) Kept totally 3 elephants	, 2 present (1,1)	1 births	1 relocated	0 deaths	Bago Yoma
U Khoon Sandah (private) Kept totally 1 elephants	, 0 present (0,0)	0 births	1 relocated	0 deaths	Kayah State
Uppatasanti Pagoda (temple) Kept totally 1 elephants	, 0 present (0,0)	0 births	1 relocated	0 deaths	Naypyidaw
Wingabaw Elephant Camp (Bago) (camp) Kept totally 13 elephants	, 12 present (1,5)	3 births	0 relocated	1 deaths	Bago (map)
Yadana White Elephants Garden (zoo) Kept totally 3 elephants	, 3 present (1,2)	0 births	0 relocated	0 deaths	Yangoon
Yangon Zoo (Rangoon Zoo) (zoo) Kept totally 47 elephants	, 6 present (1,4)	2 births	37 relocated	4 deaths	Yangon (map)

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