Maungdaw, 21 February: "A wild elephant capture drive has been conducted for some time along the Burma Bangladesh common border... The ?Wild Elephant Capturing through Anaesthesia? Team from Sandoway under the Burmese State Forest Department has sponsored the wild elephant catching drive beginning January 21... The anaesthesia team have been hunting elephants with tusks, according to another eyewitness. People in the area demand that, the elephant captors are accompanied by ivory traders from the frontier areas bordering with China..."