by Adam Cruise | Oct 31, 2024 | Studies
By University of Oxford A ground-breaking, nine-year study has revealed that elephants approaching small-scale farms in Kenya avoid beehive fences housing live honey bees up to 86% of the time during peak crop seasons, helping to reduce human-elephant conflict for...
by Adam Cruise | May 11, 2022 | News
By Capital Business MERU, Kenya, May 10 -Meru County farmers living close to forest areas have adopted bee-keeping as a way of keeping stray elephants at bay in addition to the benefits accrued from the lucrative apiculture activity. Ms. Tina Mwirigi, a bee-keeping...
by Adam Cruise | Nov 23, 2019 | News
By Tony Carnie, The Daily Maverick Elephants have been described as ‘nature’s ecological engineers’, and can fundamentally alter the landscapes around them as they forage, damaging or killing large trees. Now researchers are experimenting with smelly solutions to the...
