Villagers are increasingly encroaching on forest land, while elephants are increasingly barging into villages, killing dozens of people each year, often by trampling on them.

The villagers' tactics involve building makeshift electric fences from electric pylons around villages, which electrocute elephants on contact. A dozen elephants have been killed in this way in eastern India so far this year, conservationists say

Only about 120,000 square km (46,340 square miles) of India's landmass -- less than four percent of the total -- is suitable for elephants, according to a survey by the environment ministry last year

Poor elephants!