In Asian culture, elephants are a mythological symbol of greatness, respect and good luck, but the reality for these animals is very different from that. A tame elephant is forced to work very hard, either on illegal deforestation or in the tourism business by doing circus tricks, painting with its trunk, carrying tourists on heavy mounts, etc. On the other hand, wild elephants that live in the jungle have to struggle constantly to survive: their habitat is being destroyed by men, whose population has increased at an enormous rate, and has occupied the space that belongs to other species. Human settlements on ancient animal migrating routes have unleashed a fierce elephant/human conflict: as the elephant moves through its habitat, it comes across with human villages; it feeds on the crops, so the people from the villages shoot the elephants to save their means of support. But there is hope and is in our hands.