With A Beehive Fence, Kerala Farmers Find A Clever Way To Protect Farms From Wild Elephants
A year ago, no one in Kerala’s Mayilattumpara could sleep soundly at night. Residents of the village in the foothills of the Thrissur district lived in fear of invasions by wild elephants. The animals, reacting to the loss of their forest habitat and a scarcity of food, frequently invaded the farmland around the village, trampling…