Elephant locations in Myanmar

32 locations has kept elephants in Myanmar

There is presently 2818 (8,22) 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 4838 elephants in Myanmar (Database tables with collection of elephants further down on the page)
Elephants in locations	2818 (8,22) living 2020 (4,12) 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, (2026) available online retrieved 2026-01-23 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

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