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"The Human Elephant Conflict"


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  As natural habitats shrink and resources become scarce, elephants who once ruled much of the Asian continent are waging a war with the people who live here. The curious fact that Ganesha, the well loved Hindu God who has the head of an elephant strikes noone as particularly ironic. Instead they pray to it to ask that the elephants leave. Thousands of villagers live in the trees at night to survive the devastating damage that the elephants bring and the land that the government has declared a national park continues to be swallowed up by illegal encroachers and loggers who use tamed elephants to rip out the trees.
 

 

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