On World Elephant Day, Kenyan farmers use nature for peaceful human-elephant coexistence скачать в хорошем качестве

On World Elephant Day, Kenyan farmers use nature for peaceful human-elephant coexistence

(12 Aug 2025) ASSOCIATED PRESS Taita Taveta, Kenya - 7 August 2025 1. Various of elephants in Ngutuni Wildlife Conservancy, Kenya ASSOCIATED PRESS Taita Taveta, Kenya - 6 August 2025 2. Various of Getrude Jackim, a sesame farmer, going to her farm 3. Various of Jackim farming 4. SOUNDBITE (Kiswahili) Getrude Jackim, 70-year-old sesame farmer: "Before we used to plant maize, mung beans, cassava and pigeon peas. But now the elephants are increasingly raiding our farms and some of us can't confront them. Someone like me can't confront them because I can't run after them because I am old. Therefore, am doing sesame farming because the elephants can't eat it because of its scent." 5. Various of Jackim stacking together harvested sesame plants 6. Close of sesame seeds 7. Various of Jackim collecting sesame seeds 8. Various of elephants in Ngutuni Wildlife Conservancy, Kenya 9. Various of Richard Shika, bee farmer, inspecting his beehives 10. Various of beehives 11. Various of Shika inspecting his beehives 12. SOUNDBITE (Kiswahili) Richard Shika, bee farmer: "If the elephants raid my crops, at least I can get honey from the beehives. I can sell the honey. Between January and March, I harvested about five kilograms and between April and June, I harvested 24 kilograms, that's more than 20,000 Kenya shillings ($154) from the 24 kilograms and I earned 12,000 shillings ($92) from the five kilograms. I can educate my children. Apart from just deterring elephants, we get honey from the beehives." 13. Various of packed honey 14. Various of Shika showing how he makes a flaming stick 15. Various of the flaming stick 16. Various of elephants 17. Various of Yuka Luvonga, Co-existence Project Researcher at Save the Elephants, entering office and working 18. SOUNDBITE (English) Yuka Luvonga, Co-existence Project Researcher at Save the Elephants: "When poaching was eradicated from the world map and considered illegal, that's when the number of elephants started increasing again, and with that increase we found that there was a spike in human-elephant conflict because these elephants, initially maybe they could fear some communities, but right now they could be roaming anywhere. So we find one of the major causes of human-elephant conflict is because of human factors. We find the places or the infrastructures that us as humans, we do develop, they are the ones that hinder the migratory routes and paths which elephants used to take, maybe to go for water sources or maybe to look for herbs or some certain kind of trees." 19. Various of Shika showing how three elephants destroyed his barbed wire fence ASSOCIATED PRESS Taita Taveta, Kenya - 7 August 2025 20. Wide of elephants ASSOCIATED PRESS Taita Taveta, Kenya - 6 August 2025 21. Various of elephants 22. Various of lions STORYLINE: LEADIN: As elephant populations in Kenya boom, they are increasingly in conflict with the humans that live along their migratory routes. So some farmers are using innovative and safe ways to stop the huge animals eating their crops. World Elephant Day is marked around the world today - 12th August. STORYLINE: Elephants roam the mountainous region of Taita Taveta in Kenya. As they cross the land, they graze on plants, stripping leaves from trees and bushes along the way. It takes a lot to feed a beast this big - the average African elephant can eat 150kg or more of vegetation a day. And that appetite can put them in conflict with their human neighbours as they search for food using routes that have been passed down through generations of elephants. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...