Today, habitat loss  and human-elephant conflict are threatening the existence of the wild Asian elephant. As forests are cut down, conflicts with humans increase and their numbers plummet. Their range once streched from the far corners of China, through Thailand, Indonesia, India and  across Syria representing circa 3.5 million square miles - the size of Canada. It has shrunk to some 170,000 square miles - less than the size of Spain.

In the last one hundred years, Asian elephant populations have plummeted from 200,000 to circa 40,000 with 50% of those losses occuring in the last sixty years. The Asian elephant, a keystone species, is at an all time low.

The Asian elephant has been classified as endangered on the IUCN Red List for the past 20 years; its survival is now a matter of urgency.

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