That is indeed a very shocking thing to see. To think that in the pre independence times, there used to be so much forest cover that human and animal confrontation was not in specific areas but pretty much over the country as we read from Jim Corbett and Kenneth Anderson's anecdotes. It is really sad the way things have turned out not just for India but for the world. Deforestation and habitat loss have led to extinction of various species from our ecosystem and if nothing is done soon, we might just lose some vital elements from nature without which the entire biome would just disintegrate. Hope we are as smart as we so vividly claim to be.