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Re:The elephant vanishes: how a circus family went on the run by InfiniteRand on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @09:38AM (#27447695)
It was interesting talking to my Indian wife about elephants, for her, growing up on a farm, elephants were primarily a dangerous hazard, not necessarily to life, but they could certainly destroy her father's crops.

It was an interesting perspective since India as a country has some pride in elephants, and Indian Americans such as myself are very proud of India being the land of the elephants, but Indians who live in proximity to wild elephants tend to have a more pragmatic view of them.

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Re:The elephant vanishes: how a circus family went on the run by blahblahblah10 on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @10:34AM (#27448350)
Yes, elephants can certainly destroy crops. But proximity is a symmetric concept. The problem has been the massive expansion of our (speaking as an Indian) population (~360 million in 1950 to ~1.4 billion in 2021) into previously untouched areas, not the migration of elephants (and other species) into Bombay, Delhi and Chennai.

There are organizations that are working on more wildlife-friendly farming: https://elephantfriendlytea.com/ as well as on preventing the capture of elephants, see: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-54026294.

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