Once the water storage facilities are protected, elephants are prevented from breaking the essential equipment. Conflicts and related frustration gets reduced immediately. The way can be regarded as a first-aid help to the problem.<\/p>\n
To reach the overall goal of a harmonious coexistence, a holistic approach is needed. EHRA’s education project plays a vital role in helping people understand elephant behavior and to stay safe.
\nReducing the financial implications of having to provide water for the elephant drinking dam, key drinking sites need to be identified and diesel water pumps be replaced with solar-powered water pumps. We found that this greatly enhances the human-elephant relationship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Elephants break water tanks, and pipes, and sometimes houses to access water. The main aim is to protect the water storage facilities in rural villages , as the loss of water in a semi-arid desert puts many human lives at risk.<\/p>\n
The government provides each village with a borehole, a pump and trough for their livestock. Additionally, the government provides an elephant drinking dam, which is filled from the same borehole and ideally built a few hundred meters outside the village.<\/p>\n
This is important, so the elephants can still drink water when they are around and don’t get frustrated by the now inaccessible water storage facilities. <\/p>\n
In some cases this dam is very close to the village and elephants pass by closely. This can be dangerous if people walk at night and without a torch. We started the PEACE Education Project to equip people with the knowledge and skills they need to navigate safely around elephants. However, we help to fund alternative elephant dams further away, if necessary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":3617,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3626","initiatives","type-initiatives","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","type-deterrents-and-repellents","type-other-physical-barriers","type-physical-biological-and-virtual-fences","type-preventing-access","type-visual-deterrents-and-repellents","species-elephant-en","species-herbivores","countries-africa","countries-namibia","issues-human-safety","issues-human-well-being","issues-livestock","issues-property"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/encosh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/initiatives\/3626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/encosh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/initiatives"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/encosh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/initiatives"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/encosh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/encosh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3626"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/encosh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/initiatives\/3626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3856,"href":"https:\/\/encosh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/initiatives\/3626\/revisions\/3856"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/encosh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/encosh.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}