don't tell me that he wasn't. don't tell me that he never showed. and the jointer come up in the morning. refill the system is a few how despite. the problems cold. starts oct 11th on tall enough. this is either news a show coming up fighting for survival. elephants are being targeted by poachers for their skin and this fear of the animals will disappear altogether in the next 60 years but can it be prevented plus. is open definition in a thing of the past prime minister narendra modi's season to get

a reality check. i'm going to 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 any creasing risk to the survival of these elephants and nowhere is that more than in myanmar. helping this 4 month old get through the hardest part of her day. a deep cleaning of the nasty wound on her leg caused by a poacher snare. but then as an adult watch you know we don't dare to let deal 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 porters. the orphaned calf arrived here last month her carers have named her a our same after the forced region where she was found she appears to be on the mend but staff warn she's not yet out of danger. are you i already said 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 yet eating it i wouldn't have them have a mother to feed them that said with milk powder. that's why all of us trainer and camp officials are looking after them very carefully a priority is to prolong their lives it is 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 on mars wild elephant population in less than 60 years. peter director of the smithsonian's conservation acknowledges center but he studied human elephant conflict for many years and was a key figure in uncovering the porch and crisis in myanmar he joins me now from washington d.c.

peter african elephants for the longest time targets of fortune but not appears to have extended to elephants as well what is driving this. lesser or so enchanting has happened in the 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 and their meat. and the skin is used as a medicinal productive it's sort of 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 for the medicinal purposes it's that the powder is then made into a pace that you use to treats came rashness. this is mostly driven there's a demand in china but there seems to appears to be also local demand to be in mind 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 for that we found many many more elephants that have been poached many caucasus and skinned and that was completely new we have never seen that level of poaching and it was not just all elephants it was cows costs all kinds of all the things that can be done to stop this trade in skin from only as it appears to be the just. 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 are 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 myanmar hunting has been traditional hunting has been very common and rule people had to rely on hunting to substitute they're likely hurt some 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 dogs are hunted and traded and consumed locally and we have to assume the same is true for elephant so these are 3 slice 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 know issue of you have to raise the awareness so 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 do you have to create every unless you have to educate people about to make a defect this will have in the long run and in the short run and then you have to

have a really good law enforcement tool 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 this is a more into creative comprehensive strategy and that will take a while that will take a couple of things to put them in place broadly also talk about britain i'm recovered left to sort of leave it there for the time being thanks very much for speaking to us. 5 years back indian prime minister marines are 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 team india campaign yesterday on mama gone these but the more they claimed on off rural india was not open defectors and free or already have as it's also called a real talking about some eat 100000000 people here the claim has been questioned by experts but there's no denying the impressive numbers behind the clean indic

have been. celebrations on gandhi's 150 s birthday. prime in the center and the mood to use it to kazan to temp in his flex if sanitation scheme in just 5 years modi's target fall campaign has been 110000000 toilets an impressive effort but even modi estimates the chops not over. what we have achieved is only a model stunned and i my. europe right now 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 but i'm biased against a lot of them we feel ashamed when we go to the jungle that. another body of. somebody out there like about does nothing else we can do it then he said i'm not getting into. another issue of sustainability many projects to construct toilets haven't come with plants to maintain them. all the taller well 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. letters back from

a target driven approach what is the meaning of the term for you have opened every occasion village it is a self declared ephraim but to declare ration prime minister modi is happy to tout the measure of success. so how far is almost from being declared or difficult. i put that question from the research research center for compassionate economics in delhi but has studied the government's been. i think industrial has a long way to go before it becomes a point definition for the reason that i use the reason i said this is because you know in months i'll go read you to read you to feel star d. or 4 states understanding sanitation behavior among people 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 pioneers and use of products now what the founding of a field walking is that very often these local village officials they are likely to . declare of. open to fiction 50 as soon as they had made their targeted target number of greens that was supposed to be constructed on paper and they would not like you to use not likely to count it's use as one of the necessities in dick looting. 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 this spot which was busy building toilets as part of that. you know if we have to understand why this so much open difficult mission in india. compared to other countries in the world the case with india is

unique because it gives us this year to date beliefs about cost this time and untouchability. so it's not about poverty all access not having access to private so it would have been great to have government would have focused a lot more on. addressing these concerns. so that you know people would have understood for example of why it is not a problem because sludge. traditionally has been used for a particular group of people value so they could have done that they would have also been more. focused on you know are the behavioral change. like for instance educating the need for having. it's right because a lot of people don't understand the reason why. i don't approach colleges have to leave it there for the time being thank you very much for speaking to us and that's

also our show for the day you can find most orders on our website. and check yourself and facebook and twitter. that's all for now we leave you with images of the majestic station elephant which conservationists are fighting to protect from porches and home watching lithium extract for. the for. the boss and it is of greater need to keep at bay able to bounce a ball for over a mention on the 4th time for the fall of the most recent one that we can look at that was the bottom of the valley is that an awesome dragon's english word as you call it a home to. me but on. god

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