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. Read more here: https://ab.co/2Rw8mCo Watch Foreign Correspondent on iview: http://iview.abc.net.au/programs/fore... SUBSCRIBE: http://bit.ly/ABCNEWSAUS About Foreign Correspondent: Foreign Correspondent is the prime-time international public affairs program on Australia's national broadcaster, ABC-TV. We produce half-hour duration in-depth reports for broadcast across the ABC's television channels and digital platforms. Since 1992, our teams have journeyed to more than 170 countries to report on war, natural calamity and social and political upheaval – through the eyes of the people at the heart of it all. Connect with Foreign Correspondent: Like Foreign on Facebook:   / abcforeigncorrespondent   Follow Foreign on Twitter:   / foreignofficial   Contributions may be removed if they violate ABC’s Online Terms of Use http://www.abc.net.au/conditions.htm (Section 3). This is an official Australian Broadcasting Corporation YouTube channel