Conservation Journalist Ananth Mathivannan in ConversTation with Vidyashree Dharmaraj

The forest department has spent a whooping Rs 20 lakh on crackers meant to drive away the elephants! Continous bursting of crackers can irritate the wild. The farmers demand shooting down of the pachyderms. Has the “troublesome” elephant been identified exactly? Instead of acting on the powerful and rich who have encroached, are we going to kill the National Heritage Animal?

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