An amputee elephant walked with the ‘world's strongest prosthetic leg' in Thailand.

Six-year-old wild elephant Phang Fa Jam was maimed by a land mine when it was still a baby so animal conservationists custom-made five legs for it in Lampang province.

Footage shows Phang Fa Jam ambling along the animal camp road wearing one of the steel legs at the Thai Elephant Conservation Centre on July 28.

The jumbo's prosthetics were made from thermoplastic steel and elastomer by volunteers from the Friends of the Asian Elephant Foundation who had been taking care of it since its injury.

Its legs had to be readjusted every six months to accommodate its growth and align the size of Phang Fa Jam's foot.

While the foundation covered the cost of making it, they did not disclose its amount.

With the success of making a prosthetic leg for the heavy animal, plans to push making a facility of producing such is being considered by the organisation.

As of 2023, there are an estimated 3,084-3,500 wild elephants in Thailand. The population has been increasing in recent years, but it is still a fraction of the estimated 300,000 wild elephants that lived in Thailand at the beginning of the 20th century. The main threats to wild elephants in Thailand are habitat loss and fragmentation, poaching, and conflict with humans.