If the elephants could talk what do you think they would tell forest officer
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The 1998 study on Elephant-human conflict in Kodagu—Distribution patterns, people’s perceptions and mitigation methods surveyed people’s perceptions about the crop-raiding by elephants and found that a good number of affected people believe that elephants have a right to live despite crop damages. While elephant-proof trenches (EPTs) and translocation of problematic elephants as solutions received maximum support from farmers, culling or selective killing was supported only by 19 percent of farmers while a majority, 81 percent believed that elephants should not be killed by humans. The concept of cooperative efforts by farmers and forest department to find a solution though was received with skepticism, indicating that the local population lacked faith in the forest department, something that holds true even today