Tuesday, 23 January 2018

With a beehive fence, Kerala’s farmers tell marauding elephants to buzz off

With a beehive fence, Kerala’s farmers tell marauding elephants to buzz off

A year ago, no one in Mayilattumpara could sleep soundly at night. Residents of the village in the foothills of Thrissur district, in southwest India's Kerala state, feared invasions by wild elephants. The animals, reacting to the loss of their forest habitat and a scarcity of food, frequently invaded the farmland around the village, trampling on plants and crops and destroying incomes.

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