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Human Elephant Conflict

Human Elephant Conflict

The Conflict to Coexistence project now has it’s own website with all the information about what they do and how to volunteer.

www.millenniumelephantfoundation.com/c2c

MEF are in full support of any efforts to mitigate the human elephant conflict (HEC) and regularly make field trips to the area of Habarana to see how the local farmers are doing in their efforts to save their crops from elephants and how the elephants habitat is being affected. Currently 70% of wild elephants are not living in the protected areas of Sri Lanka.

Farms in the middle of the jungle create Human Elephant Conflict in Sri Lanka

A paddy field in the middle of the jungle

Human-elephant conflicts in Sri Lanka kill 200 elephants and 48 people in 2011 -Sri Lanka Department of Forest Conservation

Wild Elephants in Sri Lanka

Wild Elephants

Habarana is located on the edge of 3 national parks in Sri Lanka, this means that the village is right in the middle of the ‘elephant corridor’ the migration route of elephants. Wild elephants pass through the village from the jungles in search of food, naturally they eat the farmers crops, sometimes even breaking into houses to do so, causing much damage to property, crops and land. This angers and upsets the farmers who then attack the elephants, often an elephant is shot at despite it being illegal to kill an elephant in Sri Lanka.

 

Damage done to homes by Wild Elephants in Sri Lanka

Damage to homes by elephants in Habarana- you can see where elephants have broken through walls to get at crops

Our Aim:

Our main goal is to protect the elephants left in the jungle but to do this we need to find ways of working with the people and educate them about the solutions available.

The Solutions:

We have provided farmers in the area with bells and they have built small tree houses which are manned every night, if an elephant is spotted wandering into the area they ring the bells and shine their torches to make noise which scares the elephant away.

Millennium Elephant Foundation Volunteer Blog of Human Elephant Conflict in Sri Lanka

Read the Human Elephant Conflict Diaries here!

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Human Elephant Conflict Solutions

A tree house, a bell and bee box- some Human Elephant Conflict Solutions

We have also suggested that they plant some crops that the elephants do not like such as spicy Chillies and spiky oranges around the borders of their property- all can still be used to generate income!

We are designing and creating a mini Human Elephant Conflict Farm that visitors and volunteers of MEF can walk round to highlight the various projects that we are working on outside of MEF and the methods used to mitigate HEC.

Experiments in our Eco farm so far have also proved a success- the elephants here show no interest in the tasty crops as we use their dung as compost! Understandably the elephants are not interested in grazing around poop though they will eat the picked produce. Using elephant dung in this way has the benefits of being both an excellent fertiliser and a deterrent for the elephants.

The final solution that we have experimented with and has since been proved to work in Africa is bees! Elephants do not like bee’s as they can get up their trunks and so do not go near them. If we provide bee boxes to the villagers this should keep the elephants away from their land  and encourage them to stay in the protected areas, the farmers can also earn extra income from the honey! Its an eco-friendly, natural solution leading to happy farmers and more importantly happy elephants!

Volunteers investigate Human Elephant Conflict in Sri Lanka

Wild Elephants

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Here are some interesting links about HEC in Sri Lanka and various solutions!

Human-elephants conflicts in Sri Lanka kill 200 elephants

Sri Lanka fences in humans to protect its elephants

Beehives stop elephant crop raids

Pregnant female jumbo felled by shotgun

Domestication of elephants?

Relocating Elephants Backfires