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Bee fences to ward off elephant attacks
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Kodagu to have ‘bee fences’ to ward off wild elephants
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Bee boxes installed across the elephant paths by the KVIC as part of Project Re-Hab in Kodagu. Photo: Special arrangement
Kodagu to have ‘bee fences’ to ward off wild elephants
Pitting the largest animal on land against a minute insect. That is how the authorities intend to mitigate human-elephant conflict that seems to continue unabated in Kodagu and other parts of south Karnataka region.
A pilot project launched in Kodagu entails installing bee boxes along the periphery of the forest and the villages with the belief that the elephants will not venture anywhere close to the bees and thus avoid transgressing into human landscape. This idea stems from the elephants’ proven fear of the bees.
âBee-Fencesâ Set Up To Scare Away Elephants And Prevent Human-Animal Conflict In Karnataka
by Arun Kumar Das - Mar 16, 2021 06:20 AM
The bee boxes (Arun Kumar Das).
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Project RE-HAB uses âbee fencesâ to dissuade elephants from entering human habitations.
Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) has launched a âbee-fencesâ project to mitigate human-animal (elephant) conflict in the country.
The objective of Project RE-HAB (reducing elephant-human attacks using bees) is to thwart elephant attacks in human habitations using honey bees and thus reducing loss of lives â humans as well as animals.
The pilot project was launched yesterday (15 March) at four locations around village Chelur in Kodagu district of Karnataka by KVIC chairman Vinai Kumar Saxena.