 Results suggest that elephant herds occupied a minimum home range from in non-fragmented forest, while in fragmented forest habitat, the annual home range for elephants is estimated to be around .The pre-eminent threats to the Asian elephant today are habitat loss, degradation, and fragmentation, which are driven by an expanding human population, and lead in turn to increasing conflicts between humans and elephants when elephants eat or trample crops.Hundreds of people and elephants are killed annually as a result of such conflicts.