This is the terrifying moment wildlife officers climbed a tree to escape a rampaging blinded bull.

Wildlife staff and volunteers were trying to guide the 20-year-old disabled gaur back into the forest at the Thap Lan National Park in Prachin Buri, Thailand, on January 8.

But the beast was enraged by the sound of firecrackers and charged at the group. The workers, along with a news reporter, had to clamber up a durian tree to escape the attack.

They stayed in the safety of the branches while they waited for the bull to lose interest and return to the woodland. None of them were injured.

One of the staff members said he remained calm but the rookie regional reporter admitted that his 'heart nearly burst from the intensity' of the situation.

Officials said that a couple of days earlier on January 6, the bull, weighing over 1,102 pounds (500 kilogrammes), became entangled in a rope at a eucalyptus plantation.

A veterinary team tranquillised the animal and removed the ropes from its legs. However, despite being freed, the gaur did not return to the forest. Instead, it rammed into a house the following day.

Authorities launched a search operation and found the gaur in the afternoon near the same plantation and house it had damaged earlier.