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sanctuaryasia Biplab Hazra is the Sanctuary Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2017for his image captioned  The heat from the fire scorches their sensitive skin as mother and child attempt to flee the mob. Flaming tar balls and crackers fly through the air to a soundtrack of human  laughter and shouts. In the Bankura district of West Bengal  this sort of humiliation of pachyderms  is routine, 

as it is in the other elephant-range states of Assam , Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Tamil Nadu and more. India is the world’s stronghold for the Asian elephant and boasts over 70 per cent of the global population of the species. But this achievement rings hollow as vital #elephant  habitats and routes continue to be ravaged, and human-elephant conflict escalates to a fatal degree.