Close calls
A young elephant hides under a bodhi tree in Bogura, Bangladesh. In the last 10 years, at least 124 wild elephants were killed across Cox's Bazar, Chattogram, the Chittagong Hill Tracts, and Mymensingh regions. According to data from the Wildlife Management and Nature Conservation Division under the forest department, at least 102 wild elephants were killed in the Chattogram region alone in the past decade, from 2016 to January this year. "Deforestation, hill-cutting, and industrial expansion are driving elephants out of their habitats and into human settlements," said Abu Naser Md Yasin Newaz, divisional forest officer of the Wildlife Management and Nature Conservation Division in Chattogram. Meanwhile, 22 elephants and 39 people have died in human-elephant conflicts in the Mymensingh region since 2016, said ANM Abdul Wadud, divisional forest officer in Mymensingh.
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