Elefanten duerch Luucht kontrolléiert

(eTN) – This week a team of three from Kenya has come to Livingstone to help control elephants with lights! This system has been in place in areas of Kenya for the past year and is working well. Not only does it stop elephants, but lions, too. Not that we have a lion problem, but they do in Kenya.

It was found that if small flashing lights were fixed on trees or poles about 25 meters apart, elephants will not cross the invisible boundary. This is what is being done around the Mosi-oa-Tunya Park to stop them moving into town and farmland. Already lights have been put around farms in Linda which have been constantly hammered by elephants to the extent that the farmers have given up farming. Now, though, although the elephants appear around the farms they will not cross between the lights.

Lights have also been put up near the Kazungula Road ZAWA Gate to stop them crossing into the Nakatindi Compound.

When I found the team on Saturday, they were looking at where to erect a “barrier” to stop the elephants from encroaching on Livingstone from the park near the Courtyard Hotel.

The team is heading to Victoria Falls Town during the coming week to help the people there, too, with keeping elephants where elephants should be and not in the town.

The lights have come from America where they have been used for years to control wildlife from entering towns. They are solar powered. The units are being nailed to trees and electricity poles.