A special Rohingya Elephant Tusk Force - pun intended - has been set-up by the United Nations Human Rights Council and International Union for Conservation of Nature in Bangladesh to keep refugees safe from deadly elephants.
14 Rohingya been killed and several others injured by Asian elephants living in Southern Bangladesh when the animals migrate eastwards once a year, passing through the world’s largest refugee camp in the forest that straddles the border with Myanmar.
The program appears to be working, with the elephant deaths plummeting from 13 between September 2017 to February 2018 to just one in the past year, despite the high number of elephants migrating.