Many of us drink tea from Assam. Many elephants have suffered and died due to conflict with growers - there and nearby - who have encroached on the elephants' travel routes. All tea plantations should operate the way Tenzing Bodosa does, or make a living some other way. See Tenzing's story at OutlookIndia.com:
India: Tea enterprise peacefully co-exists with elephants
With all the environmental and other pressures on Northeast India and surroundings, there are dire problems to solve for which elephants can't "scapegoated." Though this article was published in 2013, it explains the dangerous environmental and related dilemmas for people and wildlife populations:
India’s Assam Shows Second-Order, Dangerous Effects of Climate Change in South Asia
