Conflict between man and elephant must stop

MeriNews
November 13, 2008

NORTHEAST INDIA has the world’s prevalent absorption of wild Asiatic elephants. At the moment, war between man and elephant is in full swing.

Core concern lies in human population and their covetousness. Some of elephantine tribulations are:
Assam and Meghalaya have a projected elephant population of 7000.
280,000/-(Two lakhs eighty thousand) hectare of woodland area have been cleared between 1996 and 2000.
8000/- (Eighteen thousand) hectare transversely 10 national parks sanctuaries encroached by humans.

Elephants are strained by dwindllng forest wrap to wander away into human settlements for food, habitually standing crops.

Above mentioned problems are only exemplary, not exhaustive. Problem is not with elephant populace, but the enormous contraction of its territory.

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