Welcome to the whole story. Im anderson cooper, the Iconic Asian Elephant is found mostly across the south and southeastern parts of the continent, including in sri lanka, which is home to roughly 7,000 Wild Elephants but these animals are in danger. Rapid development in sri lanka has pushed humans farther out into the while Building Homes and farms and factories in areas where the elephants live these remarkably intelligent creatures are learning to live alongside humans, but that means they are destroying farmlands of Aiding Fences and even holding up cars at times its on the road to demand food. Farmers try to protect their lands with firecrackers, flash grenades, sometimes guns to keep the elephants away. And the elephants will often attack and kill the people they encounter. More than one elephant today is dying from Human Activity and one person every two days from elephant attacks. Cnns Nick Paton Walsh traveled to free lanka to witness this deadly conflict and over the next hour, hes going to show you just how intense these battles can be and what the elephants are doing to survive in this new world . Some of the images in this hour, maybe disturbing to watch the twist in our time how nature behaves so unnaturally honig, turning on us because we turned on it the biggest have taken the its cruel change, the hardest driven from their homes and france now needs to break into rs fighting for food, space water life a mirror of so many conflicts between humans around us their struggle for life. Huge, urgent lumbering something to behold, and empathize because it is our struggle to assign what is also happening to us Seeking Space to breathe on a crowded earth gentle, private, timelessly patients and careful. Elephants have for centuries preferred to keep their distance their strength, intelligence complexity, mean they always have fat nation this is the place where they come. Every dusk to drink its good to peasant rebels between its quite a lot of them here because if at any moment they feel friend they could charge this isnt sightseeing. Its an Early Warning system these are locals on guard to protect their crops, just 200 yards away from being trampled by the elephants, mostly at night here in sri. Lanka the lord of a forest has become a Farmland Pest San Ju has observed elephants for years, fascinated and has now become this villages night watch man i may know when you dont let me learning. Youre going to give without and planning its. Dusk tends to darc. Sleep is a thing this farmers motherinlaw was killed by an elephant a decade ago but then and then, you of the island, our site i have made operative who may have known lambert he would likely be fear that keeps little sudo and wake tonight h i then were going to meet longer ill pi is safer just ten days earlier, an elephant killed a woman at a bus stop near here the nights have become about Patrols Survival keeping your crop your livelihood, safe base this conflicts weapons, firecrackers fund, the flashes well suddenly the numbers have grown from a couple here, possibly two ten, maybe 20 over by the tree line over there possibly coming in this direction this is already too close if they charge, it would all be over a torchlight used to always be enough, or they would bang pots and pans now, nobody wants to risk going soft so they reach straight for gunpowder usually the elephants just run button, but sometimes they charge and its us who have to. Run thats the risks they take every night when the flash bang lands it makes that noise. They could be charged or the elephant could run vigor this happens multiple times. Most nights when i there was good reason why nobody risks falling asleep for a moment the tortured go darc when they tried to rest then a russell awakes them and meters away is a large bull already in the crop he sneaked in the violently love the worst kind of outcome when the elephants slip through the fence towards the village itself this is a large elephant called a tosca for too obvious ivory reasons. Hes big and pretty angry and moving along the outskirts of this village, there are literally peoples homes on the other side over pretty flimsy Electric Fence that clicking noise is the metric current in the wire is next to us at the moment what ive called it like to stand use plot again is under threat by a large group oh and this time they run village life here as we saw over four nights in the thrall of their larger neighbors its become a life here. Drinking, fretting Listening In The Black and then the dogs, always the first to sound the alarm, pick up from inside the houses i think one has broken into the settlers router. We learned it out there i spotted any signs the elephant could kill particularly there kids. And the elephant is likely also terrified, lured by the smell of food. But now trapped in tight alleyways, hunted they. May mega hes back, but i wanted one man up ahead. Seems to be holding a rifle or shotgun the hallam get it, god. Yeah this man says the Elephant He Saw was small and ran off between the holmes as this Video Filmed By Local A month earlier shows often they are up close we drive around the edge of the village soon it is clear how many are now inside the wire some a big by as . Lit by other farmers have not stopped some slipping in between the crops and so we witnessed an extraordinary standoff between a likely terrified lost group of three elephants i want desperate man the flashlight deters them. But the farmer needs to be sure the oldest of tools in a fight for land that is new to our time for both species every night with the dark amplifying the panic as we drive away a family spill out onto the village road they are meters away from human homes that decades ago they might have never even glimpsed it takes daylight to understand the geography, the why behind the nights chasing and sand you protect here is t s treeline where wfit saw the ephants it is all perilously close anbelow, these a not elephants, but Cattle Human Addition to this landscape, one that eats the vegetation that the Elephant Funds need to consume such a huge amount of daily we have shifteinto what walong, their space so their nightly invasions a really them Returninto Theomes posing the question of whether its us or them. Thats become a pest in two seconds, eric will realize her space gotten thought the house bar skip the hassles and sell directly to open door. 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If candy every year with ten nights of flame, dance and elephants when buddha died and was cremated, the story goes his left canaan nine tooth was found in the ashes it became a symbol of great power in sri lanka but the power on show here is ugly all power over nature, and the damage we are doing to our world daily so much of it to forests, oceans, glaciers, things that cannot fight back but elephant uprooted, forced from their homes by our unhinged expansion have become a violent sin of nature, repelling us we, need it we revere it but just look at how brutalized in our acts of admiration here, we call some Great Strides the parade is blocked as one elephant has gone astray, but they have to pin it down the chains are aimed at pulling the legs apart painfully limiting Movement Police tell us to stop filming and move back here and about mega officials carrying Tranquilizer Russian a week earlier, a woman was hospitalized when several elephants from anna mock we do not see the elephants its fate the parade resumes to that moment. It takes hours of preparation they are venerated. The focus of a religious moment of great import. Get also clearly in pain. Is there bent into shape the nothing bobby lobbies, loss of dont monk been bobby People Experts say ever more in conflict with humans there are about 6,000 elephants in sri lanka. And in 2023, week killed 400 two of them they killed 169 people b. No doubt, it is not normal for an elephant to sway back and forth like this is a sign of stress there is what seems to be blood on the floor below im a hoot is a human. Theyve learned to play shuffling towards the last stage of preparation witnessed the efforts he is forced to make on the stairs that become part of our world when these Pact Drench Streets the crisis we have put all beings on this planet in, feels close marveling and the very thing we and chain and destroy so its the playoffs. Great teammates trust each other. Were gonna do a trust walls, stand up, trust. What . You sent me up. 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Com if you or a loved one have mesothelial will send you a free book to answer questions you may have call now and well come to you 808 to one 4,000 across srilanka. The Pristine Green has arteries of Concrete Ambition cut into it, growth everywhere, fast we headed into the farmland near protected ne both growth and nature to survive another sleepless world Where Breakneck Expansion into sri lankas forests has fueled an economic recovery after three decades of civil war ended in 2009 near the village. If we had a gala, this reservoir is being built in the cool of night, right across Elephant Territory the Human Decision was simple. The president of the time toward rural areas asking people what they wanted. Here. Someone said a lake. Its incredible at night. Pow, the building just now seems to stop quite wise, even need it out here. Just dont get to really understand most people say they arent short of water but they might be one day. If they keep expanding like this so really this is building to prepare for future Building A Loop Of Unchecked Growth dependent on itself. Now its not long until we see the first signs of nature hitting back more goal none of london that cut of other weather david was driving his Rickshaw Taxi down the road. When he says he ran into an elephant, he has a head injury while we hit with love it honig mega. Hes drunk and distressed i rely on that day his vehicle, his income is crushed at the front in either the egg why him, but the one yeah yeah no data across the villages here. Night means bracing for damage it is Witching Hour when oddly villages spring to life, the darc makes it so much easier for elephants to surprise them along Electric Fence lines, the river thank kept visible to humans and the black by plastic Trash Ribbons thats a pretty eerie place. This kind of no mans land between where the elephants come from, a of National Parks. And these farming fields every. In the pitch black here, a group of farmers trying to protect their land that feels bizarre to see the sort of Frontline Mentality out here but use defense the elephants into the forest. But new studies promote instead fencing them out of the villages and farms still, sometimes they break through and these men know what that is like police still cant raise his arm after a clash with an elephant two months ago hed been asleep on a berm and his fields exhausted from harvesting. More whole new. One omar hit they say, elephants have killed 26 people here since they started farming. This fields as children had no idea though, doesnt need though ive been gummy calling me again illegal. 30 again, it the flashes supplied by the state each week for all of you a fever that megan a little the integrability macron bag apparently around a commercial plantation lets the sunrises. This is the moment of relief of rest and assessing damage and it is often horrific weve got to cool to come quickly. Two hours away a full year old female elephants has been shot it was night, and she had entered a farm field. We dont know who shorter. They might be among the onlookers guns are mostly illegal, but Shooting Elephants definitely is except that happens a lot. There are signs. Shes been in trouble before the green antiseptic from earlier that treatment also on her knee because this is a chest wound there is not much they can do water and straw to keep a fed but really time is not her friend here more of it wont heal her they built a Plastic Sheeting shelter for her to keep the sun away. But thats in this book. But his country seldom euthanize animals so they must just wait this is the closest these children say theyve ever been to an elephant we like to learn. It took another three nights and two days for her to die yet nature is capable of similar violence. We learned back in west game more soucie can done a nice father was killed by an elephant. They were both Security Guards near the reservoir project. We saw earlier the el