Asian Elephants: No Way Out

Tribal (Adivasi) tea pluckers near Jaldapara Forest, West Bengal, India. Wild elephants have been known to rampage through tea gardens, attacking the pluckers, as does an occasional leopard. Jaldapara forest is a remnant of a once great continuous band of monsoonal rainforest which used to extend northward along the base of the Himalaya from Burma to Pakistan. Commonly referred to as the Terai, locally Bengalis call this jungle the Upper Duars which is a Bengalized word for 'door' because...
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Tribal (Adivasi) tea pluckers near Jaldapara Forest, West Bengal, India. Wild elephants have been known to rampage through tea gardens, attacking the pluckers, as does an occasional leopard. Jaldapara forest is a remnant of a once great continuous band of monsoonal rainforest which used to extend northward along the base of the Himalaya from Burma to Pakistan. Commonly referred to as the Terai, locally Bengalis call this jungle the Upper Duars which is a Bengalized word for 'door' because the forest was the doorway into the kingdom of Bhutan. .
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