What is human elephant conflict Human elephant conflict occurs when elephants and people live together in an area where they share the same resources Therefore they compete for the same food space and water ID: 138174
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Human Elephant Conflict (HEC)
What is human elephant conflict?Human elephant conflict occurs when elephants and people live together in an area where they share the same resources. Therefore, they compete for the same food, space and water.
Why does HEC happen?
HEC occurs when people change elephant habitat into people habitat by clearing land to grow crops, building villages and adding roads. Slide2
What can happen when elephants are your neighbors?
Elephants are attracted to many of the same food people grow. A family’s entire supply of crops can be eaten, leaving them with no food.
Elephants can become upset and
destroy homes and property.
People can
be hurt or even
killed.Slide3
Project Study:
Sumatra Elephant Conservation Response Units, Indonesia
This elephant conservation project protects wild elephants and creates job opportunities for local people.
It benefits both people and elephants. This is the mark of a successful conservation project.Slide4
Sumatran Conservation Response Unit (CRU)
A strategy for Elephant Conservation in Sumatra
The Conservation Response Unit is made up of rangers whose job it is to protect the wild elephants and the local people and their property by reducing and preventing human-elephant conflict.
CRU rangers are elephant caregivers recruited from community.
The CRU elephants are seen as partners in conservation, instead of a danger.Slide5
Conservation Response Unit Tools
Wide variety of innovative tools and practicesSlide6
Ability to plot exact locations
Easily carried in forestAllows tracking of elephant movements
Learn from local community members
Use villager knowledgeAbility to create practical solutions
Takes a picture as wildlife
passes
24 monitoring of location
CRU can focus
elsewhere
Handheld
GPS Unit
Interviewing
Local
Community
Camera Trap
Conservation Response Unit Tools
Wide variety of innovative tools and practicesSlide7
Mahouts can patrol an area in danger
CRU elephants deter wild elephantsVillagers can be educated by ranger
Available from any cellphone
GPS, Date, TimeCRU use to discover elephant interactions
CRU
Patrol
Geo-tagged
Images
Conservation Response Unit Tools
Wide variety of innovative tools and practicesSlide8
Human Elephant Conflict Solutions
Practical & creative solutions used in unison
Beehive Fence
Biofence
Education
Leaflet
Buffer Zone Crops
Chili Planting
Wildlife
CorridorSlide9
Thick palm trees form a strong fence
Adult palmyra trees are self-sufficientRequires community investment
Creates green paths for elephants
Protects historic migration routesDepends on community involvement
CRU
distribute
to local villages
To Do’s and Don’t Do’s
Brings CRU into the
village
Biofencing
Wildlife
Corridor
Education
Leaflets
Human Elephant Conflict Solutions
Practical & creative solutions used in unisonSlide10
Irritant to elephants
Affordable for localsLimited to individual homes
Some elephants fear beesFashioned
beehive fences for farmersCreate income through honey sales
Plant inedible crops around cash crops
Coffee and
tea commonly used
Most effective on large farms
Chili
Planting
Beehive
Fence
Buffer
Zone Crops
Human Elephant Conflict Solutions
Practical & creative solutions used in unison