this is either new is a show coming up fighting for survival. elephants are being targeted by poachers for their skin and tusks there's fear as the animals could disappear altogether in the next 60 years but can it be prevented plus. is open defecation in google india something of the past prime minister narendra modi says it is we get a reality check. our

british predator 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. and human animal 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 up 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 poacher's. 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. 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. if i would not have them have a mother to feed them that well fed with milk powder. that's why all of us traina and competitions are looking after them very carefully and our priority is to prolong their lives i think it is to have several rescued elephants live at this camp. at lyons and the 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. but it's a director of the smithsonian's conservation the but he started your one elephant gun 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 the best overextended to elephants as well what is driving this. lesser or so punching 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 cabinets emerging and that's particularly worrying is that elephants up being poached for their skin and their meat. and the skin is used as them it is not productive it's so the elephants are killed their skin to skin this dried it's ground up into a powder sometimes it's made into some kind of jewelry but it's mostly for more than this no purpose 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 closer 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 cause all kinds of the elephants and what can be done to stop this trade in skin from millions it appears to be that is. 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 coaching 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 me and my hunting has been traditional hunting as been very common and rule people had to rely on hunting to substitute they're

likely hurts and have additional protein and so it's merely and grains 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 we know pangolin and other products are hunted and traded and consumed locally and we have to so on the same is true for elephants so interest me quite a bit just such a need to provide alternative appointment for these people. i think you have to have a you have to have a strategy that addresses different issues you have to address the life that issue you have to raise the awareness so you have to make it unattractive to go courting if you can get your food elsewhere while going to force a vote. if you you have to create unless you have to educate people about the negative effect this will have in the long run and additional funds and then you have to really good law enforcement to get to the right make a difference and 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 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 let's look at a couple of things to put them in place right now also talk about future land rovers left to sort of leave it there for the time being thanks very much for speaking to us. 5 years back indian prime minister not in the room or 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 mama gone these birthday. on offer in india was not open difficult and free or. as it's also called. about some eat 100000000 people here 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 center and the moody yusuke asian detention his flex if sanitation scheme in just 5 years modi's target fall campaign has more than 110000000 toilets an impressive effort but even modi estimates the job's not over. yet. what we have achieved is only a model stunned when i my. europe and i we have to continue our journey to making a clean india are. not a diety. to do still believe in the u.s. caste system and poverty are all obstacles to the embassy school in these makeshift cuts 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 $5.00 rupees to spare going outside is the only option. long whatever the we feel ashamed when we go to

the jungle that. the residents live without a lot of. somebody out there looking like there's nothing else we can do it then he said i'm not getting the body. and never sustainability many projects to construct toilets haven't come with plants to maintain them. i love them all the time 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 term for you have opened every patient village it is a self declared ephraim but to declare ration prime minister modi is happy to told

that the measure of success. so how far is india from being declared open difficult and free i put that question from those of a 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 a point deficient for the reason that i use reason i think this is because you know 10 months ago we did a we did a 3 star deal for states understanding sanitation behavior among and they found that 44 percent of them still defecated in the open now it seems i like you 13 months would be enough for me to go from 44 percent to 0 percent. when i say open to question 3 i mean both construction of players and use of riders know what we've found in our field work is that very often these local village

officials they are like you to. declared a place or deer city as soon as they had made the targeted target number of projects that were supposed to be constructed on paper and they were not likely to use not likely to count it's use as one of the necessary 5 indic looting already 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 air 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 to fiction in india. compared to other countries in the world the case with india is unique because it gives us this year to beat beliefs about cost this time in untouchability. so it's not about poverty or access

not having access to credit so it would have been great to have government would have focused a lot more on. addressing this concerns this. so that you know people would have understood for example of why is not a problem because large. traditionally has been designed for a particular group of people budgets 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 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 check yourself in facebook and twitter as. that's all for now we leave you with images of

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