Natural World

Season 19 Episode 10: The Last Tusker

A colourful feature on Sri Lanka's elephant population, focusing on one of the last wild bulls. On this Buddhist island, elephants may be sacred, but they kill over people a year, and many are shot, survivors winding up in an elephant orphanage. Fifty years ago, there were ten thousand elephants and three million people on Sri Lanka; now there are two thousand elephants and 20 million people.

Genre:

Documentary

Seasons:

39

Episodes:

543

Actor:

David Attenborough , John Hannah , Juliet Stevenson

Quality:

HD

Status:

Ended

First Air:

1983

IMDb:

7.4