welcome to the whole story. >> i'm anderson cooper, the iconic asian elephant is found mostly across the south and southeastern parts of the continent, including in sri lanka, which is home to roughly 7,000 wild elephants but these animals are in danger. rapid development in sri lanka has pushed humans farther out into the while building homes and farms and factories in areas where the elephants live these remarkably intelligent creatures are learning to live alongside humans, but that means they are destroying farmlands of aiding fences and even holding up cars at times it's on the road to demand food. farmers try to protect their lands with firecrackers, flash grenades, sometimes guns to keep the elephants away. and the elephants will often attack and kill the people they

encounter. more than one elephant today is dying from human activity and one person every two days from elephant attacks. cnn's nick paton walsh traveled to free lanka to witness this deadly conflict and over the next hour, he's going to show you just how intense these battles can be and what the elephants are doing to survive in this new world? some of the images in this hour, maybe disturbing to watch the twist in our time how nature behaves so unnaturally honig, turning on us because we turned on it the biggest have taken the it's cruel change, the hardest driven from their homes and france now needs to

break into rs fighting for food, space water life a mirror of so many conflicts between humans around us their struggle for life. >> huge, urgent lumbering something to behold, and empathize because it is our struggle to assign what is also happening to us seeking space to breathe on a crowded earth gentle, private, timelessly patients and careful. elephants have for centuries preferred to

keep their distance their strength, intelligence complexity, mean they always have fat nation this is the place where they come. every dusk to drink it's good to peasant rebels between it's quite a lot of them here because if at any moment they feel friend they could charge this isn't sightseeing. it's an early warning system these are locals on guard to protect their crops, just 200 yards away from being trampled by the elephants, mostly at night here in sri. lanka the lord of a forest has become a farmland pest san ju has observed elephants for years, fascinated

and has now become this villages night watch man i may know when you don't let me learning. you're going to give without and planning it's. dusk tends to d'arc. sleep is a thing this farmers mother-in-law was killed by an elephant a decade ago but then and then, you of the island, our site i have made operative

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ten days earlier, an elephant killed a woman at a bus stop near here the night's have become about patrols survival keeping your crop your livelihood, safe base this conflicts weapons, firecrackers fund, the flashes well suddenly

the numbers have grown from a couple here, possibly two ten, maybe 20 over by the tree line over there possibly coming in this direction this is already too close if they charge, it would all be over a torchlight used to always be enough, or they would bang pots and pans now, nobody wants to risk going soft so they reach straight for gunpowder usually the elephants just run button, but sometimes they charge and it's us who have to. run that's the risks they take every night when the flash bang lands it makes that noise. they could be charged or

the elephant could run vigor this happens multiple times. >> most nights when i there was good reason why nobody risks falling asleep for a moment the tortured go d'arc when they tried to rest then a russell awakes them and meters away is a large bull already in the crop he sneaked in the violently love the worst kind of outcome when the elephants slip through the fence towards the village itself this is a

large elephant called a tosca for too obvious ivory reasons. he's big and pretty angry and moving along the outskirts of this village, there are literally people's homes on the other side over pretty flimsy electric fence that clicking noise is the metric current in the wire is next to us at the moment what i've called it like to stand use plot again is under threat by a large group oh and this time they run village life here as we saw over four nights in the

thrall of their larger neighbors it's become a life here. drinking, fretting listening in the black and then the dogs, always the first to sound the alarm, pick up from inside the houses i think one has broken into the settlers router. we learned it out there i spotted any signs the elephant could kill particularly there kids. >> and the elephant is likely also terrified, lured by the smell of food. but now trapped in tight alleyways, hunted they. may mega he's back, but i wanted one man up ahead. >> seems to be holding a rifle or shotgun the hallam get it,

god. yeah this man says the elephant he saw was small and ran off between the holmes as this video filmed by local a month earlier shows often they are up close we drive around the edge of the village soon it is clear how many are now inside the wire some a big by as? lit by other farmers have not stopped some slipping in between the crops and so we witnessed an extraordinary standoff between a likely terrified lost group of three elephants i want desperate man

the flashlight deters them. but the farmer needs to be sure the oldest of tools in a fight for land that is new to our time for both species every night with the dark amplifying the panic as we drive away a family spill out onto the village road they are meters away from human homes that decades ago they might have never even glimpsed it takes daylight to understand the geography, the why behind the nights chasing and sand you protect here is t s

treeline where wfit saw the ephants it is all perilously close anbelow, these a not elephants, but cattle human addition to this landscape, one that eats the vegetation that the elephant funds need to consume such a huge amount of daily we have shifteinto what walong, their space so their nightly invasions a really them returninto theomes posing the question of whether it's us or them. that's become a pest in two seconds, eric will realize her space gotten thought the house bar skip the hassles and sell directly to open door. >> when life's doors open, little handle the house you know, i spent a lot of time thinking about dirt at three in the morning and you try look what people don't know. >> is that not all dirt is the

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>> the way we found it what makes this seem feel even more out of joint is that the elephants, they're parading here are also objects of worship this is about harnessing that power. adorning them for a wider spectacle this is pair of hara the festival of the secret to it fills the streets of the shoreline. can city? if candy every year with ten nights of flame, dance and elephants when buddha died and was cremated, the story goes his left canaan nine tooth was found in the ashes it became a symbol of great power in sri lanka but the power on show here is ugly all power over nature, and the damage we are doing to our world daily so

much of it to forests, oceans, glaciers, things that cannot fight back but elephant uprooted, forced from their homes by our unhinged expansion have become a violent sin of nature, repelling us we, need it we revere it but just look at how brutalized in our acts of admiration here, we call some great strides the parade is blocked as one elephant has gone astray, but they have to pin it down the chains are

aimed at pulling the legs apart painfully limiting movement police tell us to stop filming and move back here and about mega officials carrying tranquilizer russian a week earlier, a woman was hospitalized when several elephants from anna mock we do not see the elephants its fate the parade resumes to that moment. >> it takes hours of preparation they are venerated.

>> the focus of a religious moment of great import. >> get also clearly in pain. is there bent into shape the nothing bobby lobbies, loss of don't monk been bobby people experts say ever more in conflict with humans there are about 6,000 elephants in sri lanka. >> and in 2023, week killed 400 two of them they killed 169 people b. no doubt, it is not

normal for an elephant to sway back and forth like this is a sign of stress there is what seems to be blood on the floor below i'm a hoot is a human. they've learned to play

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survive another sleepless world where breakneck expansion into sri lanka's forests has fueled an economic recovery after three decades of civil war ended in 2009 near the village. if we had a gala, this reservoir is being built in the cool of night, right across elephant territory the human decision was simple. the president of the time toward rural areas asking people what they wanted. >> here. >> someone said a lake. >> it's incredible at night. pow, the building just now seems to stop quite wise, even need it out here. just don't get to really understand most people say they aren't short of water but they might be one day. if they keep expanding like this so really this is building to prepare for future building a loop of unchecked growth dependent on itself.

>> now it's not long until we see the first signs of nature hitting back more goal none of london that cut of other weather david was driving his rickshaw taxi down the road. >> when he says he ran into an elephant, he has a head injury while we hit with love it honig mega. >> he's drunk and distressed i rely on that day his vehicle, his income is crushed at the front in either the egg why him, but the one yeah yeah no data across the villages here. >> night means bracing for damage it is witching hour when

oddly villages spring to life, the d'arc makes it so much easier for elephants to surprise them along electric fence lines, the river thank kept visible to humans and the black by plastic trash ribbons that's a pretty eerie place. this kind of no man's land between where the elephants come from, a of national parks. and these farming fields every.in the pitch black here, a group of farmers trying to protect their land that feels bizarre to see the sort of frontline mentality out here but use defense the elephants into the forest. but new studies promote instead fencing them out of the villages and farms still, sometimes they break through and these men know what that is like police

still can't raise his arm after a clash with an elephant two months ago he'd been asleep on a berm and his fields exhausted from harvesting. >> more whole new. one omar hit they say, elephants have killed 26 people here since they started farming. this fields as children had no idea though, doesn't need though i've been gummy calling me again illegal. >> 30 again, it the flashes

supplied by the state each week for all of you a fever that megan a little the integrability macron bag apparently around a commercial plantation let's the sunrises. this is the moment of relief of rest and assessing damage and it is often horrific we've got to cool to come quickly. >> two hours away a full year old female elephants has been

shot it was night, and she had entered a farm field. we don't know who shorter. they might be among the onlookers guns are mostly illegal, but shooting elephants definitely is except that happens a lot. there are signs. she's been in trouble before the green antiseptic from earlier that treatment also on her knee because this is a chest wound there is not much they can do water and straw to keep a fed but really time is not her friend here more of it won't heal her they built a plastic sheeting shelter for her to keep the sun away. but that's in this book. but his country seldom euthanize animals so they must just wait this is the closest these children say they've ever

been to an elephant we like to learn. it took another three nights and two days for her to die yet nature is capable of similar violence. we learned back in west game more soucie can done a nice father was killed by an elephant. they were both security guards near the reservoir project. we saw earlier the elephant charged his father, causing fatal injuries to his head that he made dot them even if people maybe they haifa but mega are mother gunman. let me the evidence the other flip, pull it in then we'll get but they didn't. talk about that. a

look they want a, cup i the elephant disturbed near the road rash the father sugata parlor, but he tried to save this is bicycle as well as his own life still. plastic elephant tasks or don his resting place. but what they are venerated, there is nothing gentle about them when threatened. arlene divided and magee and with that, thank you a lot the bicycle the father saved still sits outside there is sympathy in the laws of a wild even less here near where he died where lives the village hunter. and what are parlor who doesn't want his face shone. >> we call it i know. nothing way but the modally i'll rallied. yeah, but it bite. you

can look at baylor that doula budget, a look at they got hello? it is rudimentary, but effective enough. he's laid several in the forest the fact you would only hit an elephant's feet would still make it deadly, or you gobbled, you're done that i will ever will work this clash, this crash between species, seems so unlikely out in the green vastness yet sri, lanka has 10%

of asia's elephants but only 2% of its living space for them and still humans are coming for that but the battle here is often quiet intense moments of emptiness anxiety, and panic namdar moved out here to escape abuse at home. >> she lives on the edge of a farmlands right next to the parks around in the pitch black. elephants look in the forest sometimes meters away, and raid at will hill. >> didn't go that level, man on it oh, no leg, keeping daniel. hundred tonight's i think we had this hello canal

ideal by you see they get away as me and so every night she spends awake, count doors often have watched, begins up here alone in this tiny treehouse, silent, sleepless, waiting with the ghost of a troubled past and the wind swaying they leave yeah i mean, as i even got get me male and again, i don't want or wanna he is walking i don't

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the painful rivalry between us and them for space to live lead to something ugly still elephants getting used to a world this is the port of handbag. toyota built in a hurry by china and perhaps not as frantically busy as planned it remains source of debt. and the reason to keep digging to prompt the growth that might pay the debt off with the trees here are curated space is left for nature in our asphalt world steven here in the emerging concrete jungle, we spot a herd it's dusk, and they are on the move cattle again, seemed to

compete for the grass then as dusk seems to bring the horizon closer, timeless rhythms merge, you have to whisper to not the elephants, but still, despite the breakneck development happening around three, hertz slowly coming together it's a magical to see this. that's been going on regardless for humans invention for centuries what jr.'s is this routine? born? in the privacy of the savanna. now, just a few meters away from the new highway this young one appears it's to have injured their left leg hobbling tended to for awhile, but also later distance from the herd

the port lights pick up and the sun ebbs the warning lights of our climate crisis ignored building for growth here for a future that's not been glimpsed yet ignoring the lasting damaged for the present sometimes they aren't cage but become a sort of playground where the elephants have the upper hand this road runs through a national park and is lined with elephants trying to block the traffic until they are fed it's a kind of hold up really preying on human fear.

panicking the uninitiated some really fancy the run the buses you drive this daily seemed to almost aim for them and then there are those who came prepared knowing what the elephants want bananas the food, de throat, the elephants kind of their tax on humans for getting into their space here. >> and it's pretty clear who controls this road? this better and banned. it has worked this spot for awhile he lets us very close. >> his instinct does not seem to be two attack quite when they choose to lurch in, we do not know it should be a mystery. we let them keep a few

miles down the road, however, a walked sine of domestication as emerging every morning, the munipality comes out and reirs the electric fence because every no the elephants break it down again. >> but that will thing that's being negative a lot what quite why either side sees the need to do what they do is baffling this is a place of toxic stench, plastic smolkin it's

obvious to us why nothing living should want to be here we don't have to wait long to see what desperation here it looks like soon enough, the end-user comes the voltage which you can hear bars nearby, not even a cause for pause why the may as well be spun candy he stops assesses our camera for a slightly terrifying moments but a larger, the

pressing prize awaits because this is what is come four to feast on garbage not deterred by smoke. >> that's things our eyes either. so hungry or warped in his diet that this is what healon jaw electric shocks to eat around 20 of the hundreds of elephants that circulates srilanka this trash heaps have died in recent years some poisoned, others starving as the plastic has filled their stomachs there was simply never meant to be it's used to the human world i can take all

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watch, but this is actually good news the bars, the bandage mean he has been saved my do. >> this is a home for all from elephants the human carers do not know if the parents are dead justice. these young have been separated from the herd. normally because of injury yeah i get sadly, despite this care, elton died a few weeks later sounds like it must mean something in particular. >> but the facts here say it's

basically reflection of the fact that she thinks food is coming. and some elephants have very different personalities. they think arati because perhaps in them grumpy the fed, human baby formula in huge quantities but the number of orphans coming here is rising year-on-year ever more, showing signs of being wounded by humans in these cases perhaps losing their parents to the conflict these are the rare few who get patched back together again, most of the time, elephants just die quietly in the wild from their wounds

about 50 year here, feeding time is noisy and to help its funding a spectacle to the paradox here is keeping them alive using the human tools. they have one nudging them back towards the wild this one sample mao is missing part of his lower jaw a survivor of a so-called jaw bomb explosives deliberately hidden in vegetables by humans as a trap. detonating when the elephants by ten you may need a tube for some time more and may never eat like the rest of them but even this doesn't stop. this little guy butting in the game

humans administering, who gets human? baby formula it's about his fall from nature because they can get some like lamarck will never truly live in the wild again this 13-year-old lost the bottom part of his leg to a snare and now we have made him a prosthetic foot if feet apart from the others lives apart from them to in this heat, now give them a wash down. a powerhouse, also something he never feel in nature human charity here is a response to his own brutality. fixing our own errors the sanctuary adjoins a lake where people also wash the amputees seems to have adjusted to

coexistence. it's a man who helps embase here, who is his companion and another man who put them in this position? it's pretty clear who is winning the avoidable battle between man and elephant that victims who stopped my back, who don't submit quietly. and so let us see violence. we are doing to nature. they are a warning sign of how perilous our survival is if how deeply we are disrupting a planet that lets us feed, breathe, and drink. and how lonely and baron or immediate future here could be it's been one year since the launch of the whole story. >> and so we want to close out tonight's program with a look at what we've shown you this past year all of these episodes are available to stream on max. thanks for watching. >> and i'll see you next sunday

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