Killing invasive elephants by digging ditches in the shamba

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If elephants are a problem destroying food crops then the only solution is to kill them.

Isnt KWS ment to relocate such captured animals like elephants?

Savage

Hehe…huku ni wapi?

Its actually easier and simpler to erect beehives around shambas.

Elephants are scared of bees.

[I]Four community areas in Kenya have now tried beehive fences as a human-elephant conflict (HEC) mitigation tool for reducing elephant crop-raiding.

Our first project site was with the Kikuyu farmers of Ex-Erok in Laikipia, where we experimented with our first design of a beehive fence together using beautiful, traditional and old, log beehives. The trial was very small but successful, with the log beehives eventually producing some valuable honey.

The number of crop-raids were reduced during our initial trial in 2008 (see King et al., 2009) but soon after, the farmers had an expansive electric fence built to protect the whole community from elephant crop-raids.
Lucy with Farmers during construction of a beehive fence
Beehive fence with farming family and their bucket for collecting Elephant-Friendly Honey
Beehive Fence workshop in Sagalla Community
Community outreach at the Elephants and Bees Research Center
Farmers fixing a roof onto a beehive fence in Etorro Community
Donated beehives arriving at Daud’s farm for his beehive fence
Beehive fence protecting a farm in Chumviyere Community
Lucy with a beehive fence in Mwakoma Community, next to Tsavo East National Park
Elephant-Friendly Honey from our Kenya projects
Successful beehive fence protecting a field of maize
Ngare Mara beehive fence and farmers
Crop-raiding elephants in a Sagallan farm
Training events at the Elephants and Bees Research Center
Our second project site was established in two Turkana sub-villages of Ngare Mara, just south of Save the Elephants’ core project site of Samburu and Buffalo Springs National Reserves. Here we evolved and developed the beehive fence design to incorporate the more advanced Kenyan Top Bar Hive with an embedded queen excluder. Our research here was entirely participatory and all 64 farmers in the community were involved in the project in one way or another.

Eventually, we protected 17 of the farmers’ fields on the front line of elephant crop-raids with beehive fences and compared data from those protected farms to an additional 17 front line farms who were just using traditional thorn barriers. This data formed the bulk of Dr King’s DPhil thesis work and her results can be download as both publications and as a full pdf of her thesis. It was here in Ngare Mara that we came up with the label “Elephant-Friendly Honey” which has been a marketing success for our honey brand from the beehive fences.
Our third, and core project site in Kenya, is with the Taita people of Sagalla next to Tsavo East National Park boundary in southern Kenya. The location makes the community especially vulnerable to human-elephant conflict, with elephants venturing outside the park during the dry season in search of crops. We began the beehive fence project here in 2009 in Mwakoma village and with increased success and enthusiasm from the local people we expanded to Mwambiti Village in 2015. We now have a total of 306 beehives that are protecting 22 farms on the frontline of crop raiding events. We are primarily using Langstroth beehives in our beehive fences having formed a partnership with the Fair Trade Company, Honey Care Africa, to help adapt the beehives to fit inside the fence design. The beehive fence protected farms in Sagalla have an average of 80% success rate against crop raiding elephants. The Elephants and Bees Research Center is based in Mwakoma Village, here we have our friendly project office, the honey processing room and our community training center. These facilities enable us to help neigbouring farming communities and to train farmers and project [/I]

http://elephantsandbees.com/kenya/

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/26/science/bees-elephants-.html

they have a way of ignoring human/wildlife conflict problems until they become a crisis like this one.

The fact is, elephants don’t invade farms. Humans invade elephant homes and plant crops. Because they breed like rats.

I agree with the first part of this reply.

The second part, no. Kama ulishindwa kuzalisha hio ni shauri yako.

The animal is lucky,they didn’t think of its tusks

Kama ni huko Laikipia,that was long overdue,zimesumbua hao sana

@FieldMarshal CouchP ambia this fella he was brought up badly :D:D:D

So hurting and maiming the gentle giants is the solution…

Relocation means spending cash meant for lining pockets of some big fish in the very sector they are supposed to work for.

izi elephants zinasaidia family moja kenya. kws are just spectators. they have no control. kill them tupate izo mashamba. sensi!

Farming is a very demanding and expensive activity. And your whole effort of 10acres can be wiped out in one night by these elephants. And when you go for compensation unazungushwa na KWS for years.
Why should a farmer be gentle with the elephants? It’s better to kill them, kesi mbele

Looks like a pit latrine… This was more of an accident than a deliberate attempt

Let’s learn how to live in harmony with our wildlife.

Kumbe how did our ancestors survive? and they respected and learned from wild animals and told all types of folklore about our animals.

Farmers should stop being ignorant and learn modern methods to easily live side by side with elephants.

It would be nice to live in harmony with wildlife like our ancestors used to. But don’t forget that our ancestors used to hunt gazelle for its meat, something that is made illegal and is strictly enforced by KWF.
And farmers cannot be expected to work their farms and still be wildlife experts. Kazi ya KWF is to stop these issues from arising. If they cannot do their job then farmers cannot be blamed for protecting their livelihood especially in Kenya where the government has abandoned the farmers.

It estimated that 1 elephant can destroy an acre of corn in an hour

Humans and wildlife can coexist peacefully. Reality is, it is not possible for KWS to man all elephants, to prevent them from invading all farms, at all times. We have to be reasonable. There is going to be hostile interactions simply because the animals don’t obey our boundaries.

That is living in harmony with nature. And during those hunts with Gazelles, Buffaloes, etc. they would give a prayer and thank the animal and there God for providing them with food. Mzungu changed all that…

Anyway, KWF does a lot of community sensitization on wildlife. And most farmers follow there guidelines.

If it’s not wildlife it’s forests and the massive illegal logging that happens without a care in the world.