Bio-diversity

Community awareness and training programmes, growing a live fence of thorny bushes and trees for 5 km of the frequently atttacked areas of the village and successfully block the gap where the elephants enter the village, establishing plant nurseries and participatory planting and tending of the plants especially during the dry seasons. The village is bordering a strict nature reserve and is at a higher elevation - the area falls into the upcountry dry zone with minimum rainfall. The villagers grow crops with difficulty as water is scarce. Crop attacks by elephants during the dry season gives rise to drastic action by the villagers sometimes resulting in deaths of elephants.

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