"Local authorities found a wild elephant poached and disemboweled with its tusks cut off in Alaungdaw Kathapa National Park in Sagaing Region, Myanmar’s largest and oldest wildlife sanctuary. The park covers over 160,500 hectares of intact tropical forests and wildlife habitats. It is a proposed UNESCO World Heritage Site for both its natural and cultural value, as it is the only national park in Myanmar with a Buddhist religious heritage site within the park. It’s also one of Myanmar’s most popular ecotourism sites. U Tun Tun Win, a lawmaker from Kani Township, which is part of the sanctuary, said a villager found the body of the elephant in the jungle on Wednesday and called him. The lawmaker said he then called the Forest Department in the town and made the trip to the jungle along with other authorities to look into the death of the elephant. “When we arrived there, we found that it was a wild elephant from the national park,” he said, adding that the elephant was shot four times, including in the head, and had been dead for nearly two weeks. The authorities from the Forest Department estimated that the elephant was 20 years old, 3.4 m long and 3 m tall..."