Wild Elephants in Deadly Clashes with Booming India | Foreign Correspondent

In Assam, India’s far east, wild Indian elephants are in deadly, daily conflict with a booming India. Siobhan Heanue follows the deadly clashes as roaming elephant herds get squeezed by shrinking forests and a growing human population. Animal attacks account for dozens of human deaths annually in Assam, but as the human death count grows so too does the elephant death rate as a result of human conflict. Foreign Correspondent Investigates.

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