Sri Lanka’s Galgamuwa is on the front line of one of the world’s most serious human-elephant conflicts. An average of 138 people have been killed in encounters with the animals each year in the island nation since 2019, the second-highest death toll in the world. The death toll for elephants, forced into villages for food as their habitat shrinks, climbed to an average of 402 a year during the same period, the world’s highest