Climate change is pushing tigers, elephants closer to humans in Terai region

Hansraj stands at the edge of his land near Haripur Forest Range in Pilibhit, a city in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It’s the break of dawn. The sugarcane in his farm stands tall and wet from the October morning mist. He carries a torchlight in one hand and a bamboo stick in the other. He is on the lookout for a tiger he had seen twice before.