Kenya: Ingenious Ways to Stop Amboseli Jumbo Menace

Business Daily (Nairobi)

OPINION
27 February 2008
Posted to the web 27 February 2008

Solomon Mburu

For ages, marauding elephants of Amboseli have given farmers sleepless nights and scientists have been testing ways of reducing the level of elephant crop damage and the threat to human life in the area. The human wildlife conflict that has persisted for years in Amboseli has left farmers reeling in losses of crops and even lives.

The ecosystem in Amboseli National Park and its small size does not allow for complete fencing off to hold the jumbos inside the park making the already precarious situation complicated.

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[Winnie Kiiru is quoted.]