#Elephant love from #India authored by acrophile naturalist wordsmith @stephenalter .. this large hearted gentleman's earlier book 'In the Jungles of the Night' reimagined #JimCorbett and now it is Mowgli's tale ( #Junglebook) set in cotemporary times. Digging in @AlephBookCo 1/n

I have #elephants on my mind (and in my heart) with a book by the same name:'Elephants' by @hannahsmumby A deeply personal account of her field research across Nepal,Africa Myanmar.Shows how #elephants are like people,. yet so different. An empathetic eye & a fascinating read 2/n

Then there is @maanbarua fascinating way of looking at #elephants as cosmopolitan animals. He conducts
ethnography of elephant #conservation -from the political ecology of conserving corridors to the travels on elephant by the late Mark shand @elephantfamily then onto UK 3/n

where the ele becomes an object of high art to raise funds and how this plays on the ground in India , where
saving elephants may lead to frictions between farmers and transnational conservation assemblages . I find it interesting how @maanbarua points out the 4/n

"sanitised portrayal of the elephant to fit purposes of fund-raising" where i imagine one would not speak of the tragic human-elephant conflict that causes untold sufferings to communities (and #elephant)
Read 5/n: https://rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/tran.12047

I must add here that I recently spoke on #elephants in India at an event organised by @XrRebel focusing on the Conflict, on the trauma of living with #elephants-lifeves lost, houses, crops destroyed, # #elephants killed in retaliation. Conservation is complex tough needs 6/n

site specific solutions-tho there r no silver bullet solutions, of course. Saving a large , intelligent, social nomad in a populated landscape is a one of the most challenging tasks in conservation