Elephants on the brink in Asia. “The Asian elephant is in serious decline
throughout its entire range, according to a
report released Tuesday by the Worldwide
Fund for Nature.

Logging, agriculture and human resettlement
programs are pushing the elephants out of
their traditional homes and into increasing
conflict with humans, the report notes. About
20 percent of the world’s human population
lives within the present range of Asian
elephants, and that number is growing by
nearly 3 percent each year.

Today, an average of 2.4 elephants are killed each week in Sri Lanka alone. Environmental News Network