Covers all costs for a Community Guardian for a month – that’s one village protected!
Elephants and human refuse do not mix, it is literally a toxic combination.
With their keen olfactory sense’s elephants identify a veritable feast of delicious scents peculating in the Victoria Falls Municipal dump site.
Sadly, they frequently consume the entire plastic bag containing the perceived tasty snack, with frequent catastrophic outcomes. Numerous elephants have died as a direct result of plastic consumption, and others, in pain and stress due to plastic blocking their digestive system have displayed unusually high levels of aggressive behaviour in urban and rural areas, with tragic consequences to elephants and humans.
EleCREW along with other community partners was responsible for constructing and continues to manage an electric elephant proof fence around the municipal dumpsite. This has resulted in a significant reduction in plastic consumption amongst Vic Falls urban elephants and allowed relative harmony to prevail as the Victoria Fall human population learns to co-exist with the urban elephant population.
Communities Manager
Pays for equipment & chillis needed for a training session with a single village on chilli mitigation techniques
Pays for a site visit & training for one village on appropriate crop protection measures from elephants
Pays for a smartphone for a Community Guardian
Pays for phone credit for a Community Guardian for a year
Covers all costs for a Community Guardian for a month – that’s one village protected!