A pregnant wild elephant in Kerala’s Silent Valley Forest fell in victim to an act of human cruelty after a pineapple filled with powerful crackers offered by a man exploded in her mouth when she chomped on it. Her jaw was broken and she was unable to eat after she chewed the pineapple and it exploded in her mouth. The incident took place in the fringe areas of the Silent Valley in Attappadi, Kerala. The post-mortem revealed that the pachyderm was pregnant. The issue of the pachyderm’s tragic death came to light after Mohan Krishnan, a forest officer, posted an emotional note on his Facebook page, narrating the death of the elephant in the waters of the Velliyar River. [S.1, Q.1] In which of the following cases the reason is same as in case of the killing of the elephant mentioned in the paragraph?

• A. Tens of thousands of pangolins are poached every year, killed for their scales for use in traditional Chinese medicine and for their meat, a delicacy among some ultra-wealthy in China and Vietnam.
• B. In 2010, a study led by the World Wide Fund for Nature projected that a sea level rise of 11 inches could reduce the number of tigers in the Sundarbans, by 96 per cent within a few decades.
• C. While the government did not provide any numbers for deaths caused by other big cats, conflicts with leopards have become so common that villagers regularly mount hunting parties when one ventures near their homes, threatening children and livestock.
• D. As the human population in China continues to grow, pandas' habitat gets taken over by development, pushing them into smaller and less liveable areas which lead to food shortages and it’s the main reason that panda populations have declined.