Guwahati/Agartala, August 27 (IANS) Deaths of people due to human-elephant conflicts is on the rise in Assam with 118 people losing their lives since last year. During the same period, as many as 29 wild elephants have died, either after being run over by
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and if elephants are being gunned down across the country, well, you can be sure those guns were being used on other species as well it s just that elephants are the easiest to see because nobody can carry away a whole carcass of an elephant. and so, we felt that we had to start with elephants, but it was not for the sake of elephants alone, it was to launch a new approach, which was campaigning for wildlife in africa. going back to that opening thought about whether you re in a positive trajectory or not, it is tempting to try to find the positives and see in the elephant story, particularly in kenya, something very positive. i think from a low of around 18,000 elephants, you re now back to something like 30,000. the government claims victory against the poachers. the number of poachers, they say, that are being prosecuted is way down, simply because much less poaching is happening in the country. so would you send a message to the world, saying elephants in kenya represents what we