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A herd of 30 elephants halted traffic on a tea estate near Banarhat, 83 km from Alipurduar town and 65 km from Jalpaiguri on a state highway that leads to NH31 for nearly two hours, in India. Five-hundred metres from where the elephants had halted is Banarhat town with a population of around 10,000 people. The rest of the area has tea bushes, and territorial forests - which are not wildlife reserves like Buxa - that are part of the elephant corridors in north Bengal. On the two sides of the highway are Moraghat forest, where the herd was headed, and Totapara forest from where the jumbos had emerged. In the middle is a tea estate and a highway, a zone of man-animal conflict. As the herd stood on the road, some of the older elephants snacked on leaves from nearby trees, and passengers of bus
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