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Asia's Elephant Wars - Nearly a fifth of the world's human population lives within the range of the Asian elephant; how long can the two species coexist?(Asia: increasing human population, decreasing elephant population)
- Article from:
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National Wildlife
- Article date:
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October 1, 2002
- Author:
- Mecir, Anthony
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NEAR MIDNIGHT, as the village slumbers, Goonda slips out of the forest like a one-man commando unit. He smashes through the rock-hard rear wall of Lilo Das's house and snatches a sack bulging with milled rice. Women and children flee, screaming. Das and other men grab homemade bamboo spears and torches. Guards fire shots into the air.
But Goonda, "the hoodlum," cannot be stopped. Amid din and flames, he rams into a village shrine, then demolishes half of a second house, nearly trampling a sleeping family of seven.
The hulk next powers his way into the kitchen of a third house, pilfering food readied for a New Year's festival. After an hour-long rampage, he finally ...