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Protecting elephants by keeping them away from people
preschool Redhouse resident Tanya Cobb is off will spend a month in Kenya. She

gymnastics to Africa at the end of June to help said: "As humans cultivate more
local people protect their farmland
land that elephants have roamed
from maurauding elephants with the on in the past, the potential for
where an early help of bees - and she's conflict, damage and
appealing for your help.
injury to people and
Tanya, right, who
start makes a world went to Isambard animals has grown
enormously.
of difference! Community School and "Work by Dr Lucy
Cirencester College, King has shown
before starting a that understanding
bioscience degree at and using elephant
Exeter University, is behaviour can reduce to make, no cement is required`
working with five other conflict as a result and they are made using locally
undergraduates who of crop-raiding by sourced materials. Hives, or dummy
using the elephant's hives, are hung every 10 metres,
instinctive avoidance of African linked together by wire so that if an
honeybees. elephant touches one of the hives
"Our Bee-Elephant Enterprise or the wire, all of the hives along
Project (BEE Project) is a the fence line will start to swing,
cooperative effort with local disturbing the bees who emerge to
farmers who will install beehive drive the elephant away. African
fences in a human-elephant honeybees are aggressive and
conflict hotspot outside Tsavo East elephants really don't like them."
National Park. The BEE project is seeking £9,000
"These fences act as a natural to build a complete beehive fence.
deterrent, preserve the village crops Sponsor a beehive for £40 at:
and create a social and economic www.mydonate.bt.com/fundraisers/
daily classes for the under 5’s boost to poverty-stricken rural beeproject
communities through pollination Find out more at Facebook:
01793 822262 services and sustainable harvesting Bee-Elephant Enterprise Project
www.esprit-gymnastics.co.uk of honey. • Swindon team's discovery to save
"The fences are simple and cheap honeybees - see page 38.

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