P315 4-Tel 315 Sun 26 May C4 08:28:10 Preview ENCOUNTERS Elephant Men 20.00-21.00 Tonight For 5,000 years, Asian elephants have been captured and trained in a tradition that is at the heart of the Indian sub-continent's culture. As India's human population spirals towards 1 billion, elephants and human beings are in direct competition for land, and has created new problems. Elephant-culling is not an issue, as Hindus believe that elephants are the sacred incarnation of Ganjsh the elephant god. Competition on page 325 1/3 Next preview C4Tomorrow Subtitles A-ZP315 4-Tel 315 Sun 26 May C4 08:17:15 Preview ENCOUNTERS Elephant Men 20.00-21.00 Tonight In the north eastern state of West Bengal, elephants have started to destroy rice fields, at great risk to the livelihoods of rice farmers. Farmers who try to defend their crops risk injury or death, so the Indian govjtnmjnt has asked an expert vet, Dr Krishnamurthy, to find a solution. Dr Krishnamurthy has been a vet for 40 years, and has ovjrsjen the capture and training of ovjt 200 elephants. This is his last project before retirement. Subtitles 888 2/3 Next preview C4Tomorrow Subtitles A-ZP315 4-Tel 315 Sun 26 May C4 08:11:13 Preview ENCOUNTERS Elephant Men 20.00-21.00 Tonight Encounters follows Dr Krishnamurthy to the village of Anamali (Elephant Mountain) to enlist the help of the expert 'mahouts' (the elephant min). The mahouts head for Midnapur in West Bengal, and visit the village most affected by crop-eating elephants. In an amazing undertaking, which has njvjt been filmed before, the mahouts use lassoes and wooden stockades to turn dangerous wild elephants into tame, domesticated beasts of burden... Subtitles 888 3/3 Next preview C4Tomorrow Subtitles A-Z