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S19E10: The Last Tusker

Natural World · Season 19
Aired 21 Jan 2001 at 8:00pm (UTC)
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The Last Tusker

Synopsis

A colourful feature on Sri Lanka's elephant population, focusing on one of the last wild bulls. On this Buddhist island, elephants may be sacred, but they kill over people a year, and many are shot, survivors winding up in an elephant orphanage. Fifty years ago, there were ten thousand elephants and three million people on Sri Lanka; now there are two thousand elephants and 20 million people.

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