Six out of the 13 Asian countries with elephants now have elephant populations of less than three hundred and man-animal conflict brought about by shrinking habitat and the increasing density of local  human populations is endangering the survival of elephant populations in the region.

Local villagers living alongside elephant groups in countries like Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam say they are fed up of with  elephants raiding their crops . Birds do far more damage but elephant raids often result in human casualties and even fatalities but there is another side to the story, the elephants  have been quite literally hemmed in to small blocks of land and so conflict with the human communities that surround them  is inevitable as it is in the nature of elephants to roam.

In Africa, which has ten times more elephants than Asia,  elephant caused fatalities are pretty rare and with coordinated international action taken against the illegal ivory trade   populations are now sustainable but in Vietnam a combination of habitat loss and man-animal conflict related hunting has seen the countries small group of 80 elephants pushed over the edge , the male to female ratio is inviable, the group cannot be saved from extinction.

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