The diminutive 58-year-old said rapacious elephants would often destroy months of work in her farmland that sits between two parts of Kenya's world-renowned Tsavo National Park.

The new Dohazari-Cox’s Bazar railway line, which cuts through three forested areas, is likely to obstruct the free movement of the critically endangered Asian elephants that use these forests as corridors.

The natural corridors for around 50 wild elephants in Ukhia's reserve forest area have been blocked by temporary camps set up for the helpless Rohingya refugees.

Restrictions on elephants' free movement, scarcity of their food and development work in their habitats by government and non-government organisations fuelled the elephant-human conflict in the country, leading to deaths on both sides.

Sri Lanka attempts to stop wild elephants straying onto the pitch by deploying game wardens when the country hosts Zimbabwe for a series of one-day internationals at the Hambantota stadium.

A British helicopter pilot has been shot dead by elephant poachers in Tanzania, the conservation charity for which he was working has said.

Wild elephants said to have trampled a Border Guard Bangladesh trooper and a woodcutter in Cox’s Bazar and Chittagong in separate incidents.

The truck's driver, also an elephant trainer, walks the elephants out of the cargo compartment and directs them to help prop up the vehicle.