The Kenya Wildlife Service started a major operation early in the year to drive out more than 1000 elephants which had crossed the national park area and destroyed crops, causing damage worth millions of shillings. In India, as also anywhere in Asia, the retaliation form the people is more direct. They shoot to scare and sometimes to kill, and in some places poison the crops with chemicals guaranteed to kill. To day throughout Asia, elephant herds numbering around 50,000, down form 100,000, face threats to their survival from burgeoning human populations that are bulldozing forests into farmland and severing centuries-old migration routes...editorial