after the fall of the berlin november night. this is the that there is a show coming up fighting for survival. and funds are being targeted by poachers for their skin and. the animals will disappear altogether in the next 60 yards but can it be prevented plus. is open defecation. a thing of the past prime minister narendra modi says it is to get a reality check. welcome

to news asia it's good to have you with us now they've been in south and southeast asia for thousands of years but now their survival is under threat. of conflict is posing an increasing risk to the survival of these elephants and nowhere is that more clear than in myanmar. helping this 4 month old get through the hardest part of her day a deep clean of the nasty wound on her leg caused by a poacher sneer. and as an adult to watch you know we don't appear to let her stay with the other elephants because she's still young and her leg is still in pain we couldn't find her parents and we're not sure whether or not they were killed by elephant poachers. the orphaned calf arrived here last month.

her carers have named her a are seen after the forst region where she was found she appears to be on the mend but staff warn she's not yet out of danger. on. the big challenge for us in taking care of baby elephants is to keep them alive. it's kind of a big problem because too young elephants have already died before so these young animals are very important for us but if i wouldn't have them have a mother to feed them that well fed with milk powder. for you that's why all of us trainer and camp officials are looking after them very carefully and a priority is to prolong their lives to have several rescued elephants live at this camp. at lyons and a former logging region where many elephants once served as draft animals around 2000 still live in the wild in myanmar but their habitats shrink as humans clear

land for rice and palm oil plantations and more than ever before they become targets for poachers after their tusks and skin. it's turned into medicine and so-called red blood beats highly sought after in china for jewelry. a fashion trend with the high cost researchers warn that the skin trade could wipe out mars wild elephant population in less than 60 years. but a lot. of the smithsonian's khan's a version of. how he started your one elephant gone for many years and was a key figure in covering the ports in crisis in myanmar he joins me now from washington d.c. bitter african elephants for the longest time dog it's a fortune but not of the best overextended to elephants as well what is driving this. lesser or so punching has happened in asian elephants before poaching 5 area

but. because only male elephants have tusks and not all of them it's never been as big an issue as it is in africa so the new or new head of that's emerging and that's particularly worrying is that elephants up being poached for their skin then their meat. and the skin is used as them it is not productive it's so the elephants are killed their skin to skin is dried it's ground up into a powder sometimes it's made into some kind of jury but it's mostly for what the medicinal purposes it's the power that's then made into a pace that you use to treat skin rash as. this is mostly driven there's a demand in china but there seems appears to be also local demand to be among other asian countries yes so in 2017 we were tracking elephants to learn about they call that you were tracking them but g.p.s. radio collars and we lost 7 out of $1000.00 that were friends within a year time and then when we looked closer we found many many more elephants that

have been poached many caucasus and skinned and that was completely you know we have never seen that level of poaching and it was not just all elephants it was cows costs all kinds of the elephants what can be done to stop this trade in skin primarily as it appears to be because. well i think it's difficult to stop the trade entirely you know i think the myanmar government has been. put new measures in place they have a criminal investigation team under the government and under the ministry of home affairs they have the updated their wildlife law and increase the fines and the punish jail time punishment for poaching and trading in strictly protected species such as elephants they working with local n.g.o.s and local government to try and detect these poachers but in the end i think the problem is much more difficult because. as you may be aware and me and my hunting has been traditional hunting has been very common and rule people had to rely on hunting to substitute their life

and what some have additional protein and so it's really ingrained in the practice they are and when you look very closely there is a lot of local consumption of wildlife goods we don't know about elephants but you know penguins and other products are hunted and traded and consumed locally and we have to assume the same is true for elephant so these are 3 parts of it is that you need to provide alternate employment for these people. i think you you have to have a you have to have a strategy that addresses different issues you have to address the life you want the issue of you have to raise the awareness but you have to make it unattractive to go coaching if you can get your food elsewhere while for the force the boat. or if you you have to create every on this you have to educate people about to make a different fix this will have in the long run and in the short run and then you have to have really good law enforcement to the right make a difference and therefore you know when you approach you go to drugs and i think

the government is really trying to do this but you know it's a huge challenge and i think what's missing at this point is somewhat into a creative comprehensive strategy and that will take a while that will take a couple of things to put them in place right lots of talk about bitter land rovers left to sort of leave it there for the time being thanks very much for speaking to us. 5 years back in prime minister i'm not in for more the set the ambitious target of eliminating the practice of open defectors from in the country the goal was to build toilets nationwide as part of the so-called clean india campaign yesterday on mouth magon these birthday. off rule in india was not open difficult and free or. as it's also. about some eat 100000000 people the claim has been questioned by experts but there's no denying the impressive numbers behind the kenyan dechen been. celebrations on gandhi's 150 s birthday.

prime in the senate and the move to yusuke asian detention his flex if sanitation scheme in just 5 years melody's target fall campaign has been 110000000 toilets an impressive effort but even. the chops not over. your money are. what will have achieved is only a model stunned when i my. europe i doubt we have to continue our journey to making a clean india. not a diety. to do still believe in us caste system and poverty are all obstacles to the embassy school in these makeshift tots in delhi there's no room for private toilets people here rely on public facilities but they have to pay if they don't have 5 rupees to spare going outside is the only option. long out of

a big we feel ashamed when we go to the jungle that. the lessons learned without a lot about it of. somebody out there like about there's nothing else we can do it then he said i'm not getting it. and the other issue is sustainability many projects to construct toilets haven't come with plants to maintain them. i love them all the telephone we were glad that toilets were being built. but now they're all shocked and none of them work well. despite the problems there's no denying the huge progress the complaint has doubled toilet ownership but some analysts criticize the focus on raw numbers. it is back all from a target driven approach what is the meaning of the poem for you have opened every occasion village it is a big lady for my to declare ration prime minister modi is happy to tout as the

measure of success. so how far is also india from being declared or born deaf figures in free put that question from the research research center for compassionate economics in delhi that has studied the government's clean india campaign. i think industrial has a long way to go before it becomes deficient for the reason that i use and the reason i say this is because you know in months i'll go read you to read you to feel sturdy your 4 states understanding sanitation behavior among me and you found that 44 percent of them still defecate in the open now it seems unlikely that 10 months would be enough for open difficult to go from 44 percent to 0 percent. when i say open to question 3 i mean both construction of failures and use of friday it's now what we found in our field work is that video often this local

village of fish is they are likely to. declared a place or deer open to fiction flee as soon as they had made their targeted target number of the list that was supposed to be constructed on paper and they were not likely to use not actually to count which to use as one of them this is 35 in declaring order of so i think there is some discrepancy there what is it that the government should have been doing in your view based on the research that your organization has conducted house of the government have been conducting the clean media campaign and this spot which was busy building toilets as part of the. you know if we have to understand why this so much open defecation in india. compared to other countries in the world the case with india is unique because it is associated with beliefs about cost this time went on to charity. so it's not about

poverty or access not having access to quality so it would have been great to have government would have focused a lot more on. addressing these concerns this idea. so that you know people would have understood for example of why not a problem. traditionally has been for a particular group of people delegates so they could have done that they would have also been more. focused on you know are the behavior change. like for instance educating the need for having. it's right because a lot of people don't understand the reason why it's an alternate approach to colleges have to leave it there for the time being thank you very much for speaking to us and that's also also for the day you can find most orders on our website. and facebook and twitter. that's all for now we need you with images of the

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