Only on cnn thank you all very much for joining me this evening and all weekend. Im alex marquardt. Good night and have a good week. Welcome to the whole story. Im anderson cooper, the Iconic Asian Elephant is found mostly across the south and southeastern parts of the continent, including in sri lanka which is home to roughly 7,000 wild elephants. But these animals are in danger. Rapid development in sri lanka has pushed humans farther out into the while Building Homes and farms and factories in areas where the elephants live. These remarkably intelligent creatures are learning to ve alongside humans, but that means theyre destroying farmlands of Aiding Fences and even holding up cars times on the road to demand food farmers tried to protect their lands with firecrackers, flash grenades, sometimes guns to keep the elephants away. And the elephants will often attack and kill the people they counter. More than one elephant today is dying from Human Activity and one person every two days from elephant attacks. Cnns Nick Paton Walsh traveled to free lanka to witness this deadly conflict and over the next hour, hes going to show you just how intense these battles can be and what the elephants are doing to survive in this new world . Some of the images in this hour may be disturbing to watch the twist in our time, how nature behaves so unnaturally one turng on u because we turned on it the biggest have taken this cruel can thanks the hardest driven from their homes elephants now need to break into to us fighting for food space water, life a mirror of so many conflicts between humans around us their struggle for life. Huge, urgent lumbering, something to behold and empathize because it is our struggled to assign of what is also is also happening to he is seeking space to breathe on a crowded earth gentle get timelessly patient and careful elephants have for centuries prefer to keep their distance their strength intelligence, complexity, mean they always a fascination this is the place. Where every dusk to drink its good to peasant rebels between them its quite a lot of them here because if at any moment they friend they could charge this isnt sightseeing. Its an Early Warning system these are locals on guard to protect their crops, just 200 yards away from being trampled by the elephants, mostly at night here in sri lanka the lord of a forest has become a Farmland Pest sanjay has observed elephants for years fascinated and has now become this Villages Night Watch man when you dont atlanta . Youre going to give it out and funny its dusk tends to dark. Sleep is a thing of the past this farmers motherinlaw was killed by an elephant a decade ago. Are but then and then the very young and hani video of the islander, our site now he would likely be fair. That keeps little sudo and wake tonight hi were going to mean long ll pi does safer just ten days earlier, an elephant killed a woman at a bus stop near here. But nights have become about patrols, survival keeping your crop, your livelihood, safe base of this, conflicts, weapons Firecrackers Fund the flashes well suddenly the numbers have grown from a couple here, possibly to ten, maybe 20 over by the tree line over there possibly come in this direction this is already too close if they charge, it would all be over a torch light used to always be enough, or they would bang pots and pans now, nobody wants to risk going soft so they reach straight for gunpowder usually the elephants just run button, but sometimes they charge its us who have to run plus the risks they take every night when flash bang lands it makes that noise. They could be charged or the other phone could run vigor of the world nice when i there was good reason why nobody risks falling asleep for a brief moment, for Tortious Go Dark and they tried to rest then a russell awakes them and meters away is a large bull already in the crop he is sneaked in the validly love it the worst kind of outcome when the elephants slip through the fence towards the village itself this is a large elephant called a tosca for too obvious ivory reasons hes big and pretty angry and moving along the outskirts of this village. There are literally peoples homes on the other side over pretty flimsy Electric Field thanks clicking noise is the Electric Current in the wire is next to us at the moment what ive called it later sand use plot again is under threat by a large group and this time they run village life here, as we saw over four nights in the thrall of their larger neighbors its become a life here. Drinking, fretting Listening In The Black and then the dogs, always the first to sound the alarm, pick up from inside the houses i think one as broken into the settlers it out there. Let they spotted any signs the elephant could kill, particularly their kids and the elephant is likely also terrified lured by the smell of food, but now trapped in time like to alleyways, hunted they may work what do you forgot mega one man up ahead seems to be holding a rifle or shotgun the whole model get it got. Yeah. This man says the Elephant Tesol was small and ran off between the holmes as this Video Filmed By Local A month earlier shows, often they are up close we drive around the edge of the village. Soon it is clear how many are now inside the wire . Some big fires lit by other farmers have not stopped some slipping in between the crops. And so we witnessed an extraordinary standoff between a likely terrified lost group of three elephants and one desperate man the flashlight deters them, but the farmer needs to be sure the oldest of tools in a fight for land that is new to our time for both species every night with the dark amplifying the panic as we drive away, a family spill out onto the village road they are meters away from human homes that decades ago, they might have never even glimpsed it takes daylight to understand the geography, the why behind the nights chasing and final works these are the field sand you protect here is the treeline where we first saw the elephants it is all perilously close and below, these are not elephants, but Cattle Human Addition to this landscape, one that eats that that the elephants need to consume. Such a huge amount of daily we have shifted into what was long, their space. 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The way we found it what makes this scene feel even more out of joint is that the elephants, theyre parading here are also objects of worship this is about harnessing that power. But doling them for a wider spectacle this its Para Harris The Festival of the secret to fills the streets of the shoreline can city of candy every year with ten nights of flame, dance and elephants when buddha died and was cremated, the story goes is left canine tooth was found in the ashes it became a symbol of great power in sri lanka but, the power on show here is ugly all power over nature, and the damage we are doing to our world daily so much of it to forests, oceans, glaciers things that cannot fight back but elephants are rooted, forced from their homes by our unhinged expansion, have become a violent sin of nature repelling us we need it we revere it. But just look at how brutalized in our axis of admiration here, we cause some great stress and pain the parade is blocked as one elephant has gone astray, but they have to pin down the chains are aimed at pulling the legs apart painfully, limiting movement please tell us to stop filming and move back about mega officials can during tranquilizer russian, a week earlier, a woman was hospitalized when several elephants from anna mock we do not see the Elephants Fate The Parade resumes that journey to that moment it takes cameras have preparation they dont venerated the focus of religious moment of great import get also clearly in pain. Has that bent into shape the long bobby lobbies loss of dont monk been body first people and elephants share the land, about half of srilanka but a species, the one shot hi to in the jungle is experts say, ever more in conflict with humans there are about 6,000 elephant its in sri lanka. And in 2023, week killed 476 of them they killed hundred and 69 people being knocked out. It is not normal for an elephant to sway back and forth like this. It is a sign of stress there is what seems to be blood on the floor hello im a hoot is a human. Theyve learned to obey yeah hey shaphan, towards the last stage of preparation witnessed the efforts he is forced to make on the stairs to become part of our world in these packed, drench streets, the crisis we have put all beings on this planet in feels close marveling and the very thing we end chain and destroying the historic first criminal trial of donald trump. That jury has been selected. Now, Opening Statements begin. How will each side layout . Follow cnn for special live coverage . Opening statements in the Trump Hush Money Trial starts tomorrow at nine eastern am for sure investments. We may look like other many managers, but were different you cant be that different. 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Growth everywhere fast we headed into the farmland near protected areas to meet the people who need both growth and nature to survive another sleepless world Where Breakneck Expansion into sri lankas forests has fueled an economic recovery after three decades of civil war ended in 2009 near the village of were had a gala. This reservoir is being built in the cool of night, right across Elephant Territory the Human Decision was simple. The president of the time toward rural areas asking people what they wanted here someone said a lake. Its incredible at night how the building just never seems to stop quite wise, even need it out here just. Dont get to really understand most people say they arent short of water, but they might be one day if they keep expanding like this so really this is building to prepare for future Building A Loop Of Unchecked Growth dependent on itself its not long until we see the first signs of nature hitting back more goal rather that cut of other weather david was driving his Rickshaw Taxi down the road. When he says he ran into an elephant, he has a head injury while we hit with love it one what with mega . His trunk. And distressed i rely on one day his vehicle, his income is crushed at the front either in the egg why him, but the one yeah data across the villagers here. Night means bracing for damage it is Witching Hour when oddly villages spring live, the darc makes it so much easier for elephants to surprise them along, electric fence lines, the river bank kept visible to humans in the black by plastic trash ribbons. Thats a pretty eerie place. This kind of no mans land between where the elephants come from, a kind of National Parks. And these farming fields, every. In the pitch black here a group of farmers trying to protect their land. And it feels bizarre to see this Frontline Mentality out here but used to fence the elephants into the forest. But new studies promote instead, fencing them out of the villages and farms still, sometimes they break through. And these men know what that is like a party still cant raise his arm after a clash with an elephant two months ago hed been asleep on a berm and his fields exhausted from harvesting whole new one i had loved they say, elephants have killed 26 people here since they started farming. This fields as children had no idea doesnt need it im from gummy calling me again illegal again there is no guarantee of compensation if their crops or destroyed only them out here with a handful of thunder flashes supplied by the state. Each week for all of you fever under the act, mega and willing to the integrability mecca a commercial plantation lets the sunrises. This is the moment of relief of rest and assessing damage and it is often a rafiq weve got to cool to come quickly two hours away a four year old female elephants has been shot it was night, and she had entered a farm field. We dont know who shatter. They might be among the onlookers guns are mostly illegal, but Shooting Elephants definitely is except that happens a lot. There are signs. Shes been in trouble before the green antiseptic from earlier that treatment also on her knee because this is a chest wound. There is not much they can do water and straw to keep a fed but really time is not her friend here. More of it wont heal her they built a Plastic Sheeting shelter for her to keep the sun away but thats in this buddhist countries seldom euthanize animals so they must just wait this is the closest these children say theyve ever been to an elephant wed like to learn. It took another three nights two days for her to die yet nature is capable of similar violence. We learned back in west game more suu zero can done a nice father was killed by an elephant. They were both Security Guards near the reservoir project. We saw earlier the elephant charged his father, causing fatal inju