Human Elephant Conflict mitigation going wrong? As HEC throughout Asia is on the rise, mitigation seems to have failed. Today HEC mitigation methods almost entirely focus on reducing the human elephant conflict impact on humans. This has proven to be unsuccessful! There is not a single instance where deterrents have stopped HEC! A change of […]
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The elephant alarm fence by Nature & Wildlife Association Based on a recent project by Green Guard Nature Organization in Assam/India, NWA has designed and implemented a low cost early warning system in Wang Mi on the edge of Khao Yai National Park/Thailand in cooperation with Freeland Foundation. The fence is intended to warn villagers
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What is the future for Asian elephants? (wild) Can Asian elephants survive in the wild? Good protection has led to an increase in wild elephant populations in many countries in Asia. We do have increases in China, Bhutan, Nepal, Thailand, parts of India, while Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Vietnam and Bangladesh have stabilized, Myanmar and Laos
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NWA on Human Elephant Conflict mitigation in Asia Do we need to refocus our efforts? We at Nature & Wildlife Association believe so! As habitats keep shrinking and wild elephant populations are stabilizing or growing, HEC is on the increase. To understand the situation, let’s go through the current efforts: semi permanent fences, electric fences,
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NWA on domesticated elephants Nature & wildlife association is in no way involved in domestic elephants, we are only engaged with wild elephants, but as we regularly get dragged into the discussions and arguments between sanctuaries and elephant camps we would like to make our position clear: we believe that both, sanctuaries and elephant camps
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A normal every day occurrence in Human Elephant Conflict zones! Here you can see the most widely used deterrent; fire crackers.
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A wild elephant entering a house! Probably the worst nightmare for any villager in elephant country.
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Human Elephant Conflict at its best! Wild elephant drinks whiskey at a camping site!
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Nature And Wildlife Association holds elephant quick identification courses to help identify elephants involved in Human Elephant Conflict.
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Thoughts on (so called) conservation of Asian elephants We need to understand that elephant conservation in Asia is entirely different from Africa. The main threat to African elephants is poaching and to a certain degree habitat loss. In Asia poaching for ivory is currently not a main problem, but there are many other serious
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