The IUCN estimates there are about 268 surviving elephants in Bangladesh, of which about 15%, or 35-45, live around the sprawling Rohingya camp area. All this land was forest before but now it has been torn down and the elephant deserves to be conserved." Amin said it was the response team's job to also educate the Rohingya about elephants through awareness campaigns and children's programmes. "It may happen that the elephants understand the loss and become more violent or desperate to move again," he said. "Maybe we can find an alternative route for the elephants to cross through the camps and to the corridor."

Source: Dhaka Tribune February 07, 2019 04:52 UTC