"Conserving Asiatic elephants requires a great effort. They need to be provided with huge resources of water and food to ensure their survival in the wild. In the bigger picture, such efforts to conserve these giant mammals will automatically trickle down to benefit the tigers," he says.
A collection of rare photographs of the Asiatic elephant by Bedi form a part of an exhibition at India Habitat Centre here.
Conveying the message of "elephant extinction", the exhibition titled "Elephant - the divine mystery," consists of unique clicks of groups of tuskers in their wild habitat.
Around forty photos from Bedi's vast collection on elephants are on display at the exhibition. Many more are soon to appear in a large format book, which will also include tales of his adventures in search of that perfect elephant photograph.
"We cannot know the mind of an elephant, but these intelligent, expressive creatures share much with us. Intensely social animals, they have large brains, famously long memories and they appear to express a wide range of emotions," says Bedi.
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