In rural Kenya, elephants pose a threat to farmers because of their crop-raiding behaviour, leading to human-wildlife conflict. To help, conservation company helped develop and install an innovative, low-tech deterrent.
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The device, known as a Kasaine fence after Simon Kasaine, the research scientist who invented it, uses a long length of wire with metal strips attached, placed on poles around a farmer’s field. The metal strips make a sound when contacted or blown by the wind, which tends to scare the elephants away. â
Low-tech device reduces human-wildlife conflict in Kenya
By David Stock
