#human-elephant-conflict

#human-elephant-conflict

“Obviously, it's war.” He's referring to increasingly deadly encounters between farmers and pachyderms. Now Kapuga fears that the latest Mideast war will intensify that conflict because the war is pushing up the price of fuel and fertilizer, so farmers are spending more to plant less. And he believes that means farmers will be more vigilant in attacking elephants who raid their fields: “More elephants will die or more farmers will die.”