THE SUCCESSES OF ELECTRIC FENCING FOR RESOLVING HUMAN-ELEPHANT CONFLICT
1. In areas where the introduction of a fence line has taken place, human-elephant conflict has decreased by an ASTOUNDING 98%.
2. Another benefit is that community attitudes towards elephants are changing. The people are learning that elephants are THE key species for protecting the forest.
3. Elephants are the "Johnny Appleseed" of the woodlands
-- BECAUSE their dung contains thousands and thousands of tree seeds that the elephants disperse throughout the forest.
Because of solar-powered electric fencing, crops are safe and harvested, supporting hundreds of families.
The village communities' attitudes toward wildlife preservation play a vital role in the long term protection of elephants --- and safeguarding the ecosystem which supports both people and wildlife.
Poverty is one of the major drivers of poaching and deforestation.
The result is that forests lose their watersheds and rivers begin to shrink through erosion. Then the crops fail. All of that degradation creates more soil erosion.