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  Elephants Breaking Fences Electric fences, with an electric current (1 Hz), are being erected, for some time now, around forests and National Wildlife Parks where wild elephants live. They are made by joining wooden posts with metal wires. There is no danger whatever to life by this amount of electricity and the aim of erecting these electric fences is to prevent elephants crossing them. And also the same objective is achieved by cutting deep trenches at some places.   There are human abodes, cultivations and industries beyond these fences. When there is shortage of food for the elephants in areas in which they live and there are crops which they like grown in the farmlands beyond the elephant fences, they try to get in to the cultivations by demolishing the electric fences. Sometime their attempts are successful.   The main method used by the elephants to break the fences is to bring fairly large dry tree log from within the forest and place it on the fence to lower it.

 Este es un artículo escrito sobre las necesidades contemporáneas y publicado semanalmente en Lanka Nature Trails News ON. Gente y elefantes en Sri Lanka. La población actual de elefantes en Sri Lanka es de aproximadamente 6500. Si se compara con la situación de hace unos 20 años es un aumento del 100% pero no se ha podido aumentar la cobertura forestal ni salvarla. En cambio, está disminuyendo día a día. Los bosques no solo se talan para actividades de desarrollo, asentamientos humanos y agricultura, sino que también se destruyen por incendios  debido a la negligencia, el sabotaje y las actividades de los estafadores de madera ilícitos. Como resultado, los elefantes salvajes y otros animales salvajes se enfrentan a una crisis de agotamiento de sus hábitats y no pueden encontrar  alimentos adecuados. El clímax de esta situación es el conflicto humano-elefante. (Por lo que está sucediendo en Panamá frente a Pottuvil, se ve que allí también se está produciendo un conflicto entre humanos

  Lanka Nature Trails News ON   (Lanka Nature Trails News Of Nature) This is an article written about contemporary needs and published weekly on Lanka Nature Trails News ON. We and Elephants in Sri Lanka. The present elephant population in Sri Lanka is about 6500. When compared to the situation about 20 years ago it is an increase of 100% but it has not been able to increase the forest cover or save it. Instead it is decreasing day by day. Forests are not only being cleared for development activities, human settlements and agriculture but also destroyed by fire due to negligence, sabotage and the activities of illicit timber racketeers. As a result the wild elephants and other wild animals are faced with a crisis of depletion of their habitats and being unable to find adequate food. The climax of this situation is the human-elephant conflict. (From what is happening in Panama off Pottuvil, it is seen that a human-leopard conflict is also taking place there.) The objective