How can man-elephant conflict be mitigated, when local people create openings in the elephant proof fences for their own access into the forest, damage them so that power supply is disrupted making the fence ineffective, and use them for tying up a watch dog to alert them if any deer or other poachable animal is within their reach? At night the dog is removed from the fence so that it is not attacked by an elephant or a leopard - Photo: An electric fence in disarear at the edge of the elephant habitat in Doon Valley.
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This reflects the short-term and selfish thinking with which most Indians are suffering right now.
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