Taita Taveta, Kenya (AP) – Farmers in Taita Hills in southern Kenya, elephants are dangerous: They attack crops and occasionally will harm people.
The Farmer Richard Shika, aged 68, have a close meeting. “Sometimes I was trying to chase an elephant in my corn field, but he turned,” said Shika remember. “It’s right in my presence, and I can jump on the way.”
He feels lucky to live. Likely two years ago, local media reported that a three-year-old girl was trodden by elephant Taita Taveta County, injured her mother.
The place where the Shika his farm is nearly surrounded by National Park of Kenya. The TSOVO East National Park border is less than 10 kilometers (6 miles) in the east, and the West sato rotates in the north, west and south. Parks remain unauthorized, allowing animals to migrate. With increasingly, that puts them in the path of people.
“Places and infrastructure that we will be proud of migratory routes and methods used for elephants used for human elephants through the Environmental Services Association Save elephants.
Elephants eat approximately 150 pounds (330 pounds) vegetation per day, so keeping farms and tricks, especially if the estate rows elsewhere. “Elephants are intelligent creatures,” said Shika. “They will try to touch the fence, and when they see that it is nothing.”
If farmers try to chase, just as you do the burning, elephants sometimes turn to protecting yourself. Kenya Wildlife Service and Conserving Service Tracking Tracking Conflict of Personal Disputes-Elephant
Communities sometimes will retaliate by sending ivory or elephants, but there are some solutions, as farmers here have received.
One of them is bees.
“Elephants do not like pollution, so they avoid places where seedlings arise,” said Shika.
With the help of saving elephants ,,,,,,,,,,,, he is one of the 50 farmers who have been a bee in the strips between their farms. If an elephant touches the phone, shaking boils, interfering with bees. The young alert array keep elephants from far away farm.
“Through the acts as a phone call, I can continue to grow plants and have found a lifestyle,” said Shika. This year, it was made about $ 250 for sale.
Changing crops can also make a difference. Elephants like corn and watermelon. But since we are session? Blg.
The Sample plants produce a smell that smells with ivory smells, so in Gertrude Jackim, Swipe corn and green grams of the Sesame was no brainer. “Looking at me, I’m getting old, so I can’t get rid of elephants or drive them,” he said.
He is one 100 of the 100 farmers who are prescribed accepting Sesame seed production. Changes were urgently needed, he said. “Over the years, elephants have destroyed much.”
Farming practices wipe elephants – such as the bee and same growth – make it very easy for farmers like Shika and Jatim.
The preservatives hope that in time, this will overcome the hearts and mind in the area where conflicting conflicts have reached the worries.
Ye Amusa Luke said: “We should live in harmony with these elephants.” And creating awareness and sensitivity communities to make their attitude toward animals we have. “
Only then, both people and elephants are continuing to prosper.
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The magistrate’s writer Cholas Kom 1 Nairobi, Kenya, donated to this report.
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