(50min 51sec)
A documentary film by Brigitte Uttar Kornetzky
(And the short version of ELEPHANTS, FROM ZERO TO HERO)
www.elephantsfromzerotohero.ch
When people and elephants meet in tea plantations or rice paddies, tragedies are inevitable.
The documentary film reveals the living conditions of elephants living amongst the settlements of people. As a matter of fact, the habitat of elephants is fragmented, and shrunk to an almost non-existing level. Elephants around Golaghat in Assam have no habitat. Highly populated areas and the behaviour of people have pushed elephants to the limits. Consequently, tragedies are inevitable.
Together with an organisation of effected farmers, a young couple found solutions to the disastrous problem by re-establishing fodder habitats for elephants adjoining the forest and therefore secure the lives and harvest of farmers and provide a peaceful co-existence with the pachyderms and the people alike. They decided to plant large areas of food for the elephants and therefore mitigated the conflict to level zero.FAREP is a solution oriented investigational documentary film about the grave situation of human-elephant-conflict in Northeast India, showing that every conflict can find it’s own solution, as long as we show love and respect.