At least one hundred dead elephants were spotted on the border of Chad's Zakouma National Park in the last week of August. Poachers hacked off the animals' heads to remove tusks and left the

A searing drought that threatens livelihood of millions of people in East Africa is also leading to a human-elephant clash. The search for water and food is drawing elephants in the Kenyan National

During the last two decades there has been a regular phenomenon of elephant herds migrating into new habitats and therefore it has become an important issue for managing the population of wild elephants in India. Since 1987, a group of 40-60 elephants has been migrating from Dalma Wildlife Sanctuary of Jharkhand state to vast areas of South West Bengal's forests each year during August-September, and remaining there for 6-7 months.

India's elephants are squeezed for living space, stressed by development, and growing increasingly violent. So are its people. A report from ground zero on the spreading conflict between one of the world's last great elephant populations and the people who share their habitat.