Wild animals are destroying crops and adding massively to the economic losses of farmers. In many parts of India, farming is becoming unviable because of marauding animals. There is now a war involving not only big mammals such as tigers, elephants and leopards, but also wild boars, nilgai and other ungulates and, most damaging of all, monkeys. This is a fact, but one that we are not willing to discuss, let alone resolve. The conservation community would like to avoid this discussion; for them—perhaps rightly so—if there is a conflict, the fault lies at the doorstep of humans.
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