2007-06-16 - Namsai, India. Biswajyoti Das
Wild elephants are being illegally captured from the jungles of northeast India and forced to work in temples and give tourists rides, conservationists say. About 70 to 80 of Assam's 5,000 wild elephants are smuggled out of the northeastern state every year, conservationists say, despite India's ban on the trapping of wild elephants in 1986. A smuggler typically earns 15,000 to 30,000 rupees per elephant.
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