write a newspaper report about a herd of elephants that has made it's way into a tea plantation. use as many words and phrases as possible from the box . like bulls in a China shop ,peaceful ,shrinking habits, provocation ,bio-fence ,human animal conflict ,strategies, co- existence, search for food and shelter ,panic ,direction of wind ,elephant corridors, rapid deforestation, bolting, electric fence, jangling alarm.
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Elephants are falling into trenches on Indian tea plantations
But efforts to grow elephant-friendly tea are helping.
BY RACHEL FOBAR
PUBLISHED JANUARY 24, 2020
For adult elephants, drainage ditches in tea gardens generally aren’t a life-threatening hazard, but if the trenches are deep enough, babies can stumble into them and get stuck, injuring themselves and sometimes dying.
PHOTOGRAPH BY NIRAJ MANI CHOURASIA
You probably don’t think of your morning cup of tea as a safety hazard, but those aromatic leaves can mean injury—even death—for Asian elephants roaming Indian tea gardens, or plantations, in the northeastern state of Assam.
Tea is the second most popular drink in the world (after water), and production in India—the world’s second-largest producer behind China—reached a record high of 1.27 million tons in 2016, according to a 2018 report by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
Much of the land where tea is grown in Assam is flat, and since stagnant water is bad for the shrubs, farmers dig drainage trenches to prevent it from accumulating. The trenches are a problem for young elephants, which can fall into them, breaking legs or otherwise injuring themselves and becoming separated from their herds.
Or worse. Kushal Konwar Sarma, a veterinarian and member of Project Elephant, a government-sponsored wildlife conservation program, says that of the roughly hundred unnatural deaths of elephants a year in Assam—from poisonings to electrocutions—eight to 10 are the result of falls into tea garden trenches.