Bees Help Protect Crops From Damage By Elephants In Kenya. (2009)

The Elephants and Bees Research project is one of Save the Elephants' innovative programmes designed to explore the natural world for solutions to human-elephant conflict. The project uses in-depth knowledge and observation of elephant behaviour to reduce damage from crop-raiding elephants, using African honey bees. Save the Elephants is a research team headed by the elephant expert Dr. Iain Douglas-Hamilton, OBE. In collaboration with the Kenya Wildlife Service, we are investigating crop protection methods that can be financed and managed by the farmers themselves to provide long term solutions to human-elephant conflict.