India's population growth worsens elephant-human conflict

ON the day Yogesh became another of the dozens of Indians trampled to death each year, the coffee plantation worker knew from the firecrackers set off nearby that danger was at hand.

The incident happened in the southern state of Karnataka, home to India’s largest elephant population with more than 6,000 jumbos, 20 percent of India’s elephant total. The 48-year-old left behind a wife and two children.

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