Botswana

Solar-electric Poliwire fencing as a farm-based deterrent for elephant crop-raiding

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Solar-electric poliwire fencing is aimed at mitigating the impact of elephants on the livelihoods of subsistence farmers. It is a small, portable, farm-based initiative used during each cropping season to deter elephants from individual fields, while allowing them to continue to...

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Alternative crops for mitigating elephant crop raiding

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The first attractant of elephants to our fields is the different crops grown within, such as maize, sorghum, millet etc. Therefore, this trials hold a strong position that evaluating alternative cropping strategies can bring about a significant knowledge, understanding and more i...

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Bio-boundary

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Developing artificial chemical signals that will keep African Wild Dogs safely inside the borders of protected conservation areas.

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Eye-painting cow

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This initiative consists of painting eyes on the hindquarters of cows to scare off predators that ambush them from behind like lions.

Working with Botswana Predator Conservation and local herders, we painted the cattle of 14 herds that had recently suffered lion atta...

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