This is very sad. These incidents are happening without and with the knowledge of the forest department and they are not doing any thing to stop them. The people who handle the tourists need to be educated well and they inturn need to educate the tourists. I want to narrate the incidence that happened to me last month in Bandipur. I went into the forest through a famous resort's jeep and we saw a mother and son elephants. The driver tried purposefully to provoke the mother elephant so that it charges towards the jeep. He told us that people give him some money only if he does some thing like that. I was surprised and had to tell him not to worry about his money and insisted that we do not disturb the elephants. Jungle is their house and hence we should follow their rules.