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just ten days earlier, an elephant killed a woman at a bus stop near here. but night's have become about patrols, survival keeping your crop, your livelihood, safe base of this, conflicts, weapons firecrackers fund the flashes well suddenly the
only on cnn thank you all very much for joining me this evening and all weekend. >> i'm alex marquardt. good night and have a good week. >> welcome to the whole story. i'm 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 ve alongside humans, but that means they're destroying farmlands of aiding fences and even holding up cars times on the road to demand food farmers tried 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 counter. more than one elephant
large elephant called a tosca for too obvious ivory reasons he's big and pretty angry and moving along the outskirts of this village. there are literally people's homes on the other side over pretty flimsy electric field thanks clicking noise is the electric current in the wire is next to us at the moment what i've called it later sand use plot again is under threat by a large group and this time they run village life here, as we saw over four nights in the thrall of their larger
that don't i mean, yeah, burial that dollar budget a look at you, set the tripp why? i don't know it is rudimentary, but effective enough. he's laid several in the forest the fact he would only hit an elephant's feet would still make it deadly. >> how you gobbled, you're done than i will early who work all right? >> this clash, this crash between species, seems so unlikely out in the green vastness yet sri lanka has 10% of asia's elephants, but only
well suddenly the numbers have grown from couple here, possibly to 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. >> use to always be enough. or they were banging pots and pans now, nobody wants to risk going soft. so they reach straight from gunpowder usually the elephants just run button but sometimes they charge and it's us who have to run and, nic story on the all new episode of the whole story with anderson cooper, one whole hour, one whole story that air is
night, and she had entered a farm field. >> we don't know who shatter. they might be among the onlookers guns are mostly illegal, but shooting elephants definitely is except that happens a lot. there are signs. she's 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 won't heal her they built a plastic sheeting shelter for her to keep the sun away but that's in this buddhist countries seldom euthanize animals so they must just wait this is the closest these children say they've ever been to an elephant we'd like
neighbors it's 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 as broken into the settlers it out there. let they spotted any signs the elephant could kill, particularly their kids and the elephant is likely also terrified lured by the smell of food, but now trapped in time like to alleyways, hunted they may work what do you forgot mega one man up ahead seems to be holding a rifle or shotgun
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coexistence. it's a man who helps embase here, who is his companion and another man who put them in this position? it's pretty clear who is winning the avoidable battle between man and elephant that victims who stopped my back, who don't submit quietly. and so let us see violence. we are doing to nature. they are a warning sign of how perilous our survival is if how deeply we are disrupting a planet that lets us feed, breathe, and drink. and how lonely and baron or immediate future here could be it's been one year since the launch of the whole story. >> and so we want to close out tonight's program with a look at what we've shown you this past year all of these episodes are available to stream on max. thanks for watching. >> and i'll see you next sunday
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