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Much beyond the meteorological reports and satellite scans, there is this one sign that unerringly foretells the misery that will

befall men in times of a deluge: that of the elephant leaving its thicket for safer shores, in herds, tuskers up front, calves ensconced in the middle, mothers by their side; the earlier they leave, the worse the fury of the flood to come. In Assam, a home to over 5,000 of the world’s 32,000 Asiatic elephants, however, that tie with revered “Ganesh Baba” has all but snapped, with the toll in the now infamous and ongoing man-elephant conflict at a shocking 200 persons an year in India, with the count of jumbos killed yearly in the country touching an alarming 300. (A century ago, the Asiatic elephant count stood at 100,000; African elephants dropped from an estimated 3 to 5 million to between 400,000 & 600,000!)

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Source: IIPM Editorial, 2007An IIPM and Management Guru Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri's Initiative