Amerucans innovate ways to put away elephants

Occupants of Mutunyi in Buuri, Meru County have turned to developing a stone divider on an elephant hallway, to avert jumbos that have demolished yields.

Mutunyi, which is situated close to the Lewa Conservancy on the Meru-Isiolo outskirt is popular for green cultivating with ranchers raking into up to Sh100 million yearly.

The territory likewise sits on a stretch prompting the Mt Kenya Elephant Corridor, that incorporates an underpass, interfacing conventional elephant transitory way between Mt Kenya Forest and northern Kenya. Around 200 elephants are said to utilize the hall consistently.

Kisima Ward Representative Joy Karambu said the administration’s nourishment security motivation was in danger as elephants were annihilating harvests worth Sh4 million consistently.

Accordingly, occupants have contrived a method for keeping the elephants under control by building a divider on a one kilometer stretch of the Meru-Isiolo limit.