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Bees can save elephants
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 30/04/2023
» It's a familiar, dreaded scenario in many parts of Africa and Asia: An elephant shows up, wanders into farmers' fields, and tramples and eats crops. Sometimes farmers fight back, and elephants are killed.
Bees can help solve a jumbo problem
Life, Pongpet Mekloy, Published on 08/01/2020
» Conflicts between wild elephants and farmers living near forests can be severe in certain parts of Thailand. The problem happens when the pachyderms venture outside of their natural habitat to forage. That often results in villagers losing a year’s crops, elephants getting killed or both. But a non-violent solution is now a possibility, and the public can help make it happen.
Buzzing with entrepreneurship
Business, Published on 05/09/2019
» Sanya Thongphoem is a rubber plantation owner and farmer. However, these days he is better known as the beekeeper of Rattaphum, a district in the southern province of Songkhla.
Lady Gaga strips down to her underwear on Met Gala carpet
Published on 07/05/2019
» NEW YORK: There are grand entrances, and then there is Lady Gaga's outrageous multiple-outfit arrival at the 2019 Met Gala.
Tiny solution to jumbo problem
News, Chaiwat Satyaem, Published on 26/02/2018
» Farmers across Thailand have borne the brunt of crop damage due to invasions by wild elephants for decades. Several measures to thwart such intrusions have been rolled out, including building electric fences around farmland, but none of them have deterred these determined jumbos.
Beehive fence stops attacks by hungry elephants
Terry Fredrickson, Published on 17/07/2017
» A farmer in Khaeng Hang Maew district of Chanthaburi province has finally found a humane way to keep the hungry jumbos away without harming them – a beehive fence.
Beehive fence stops elephants from destroying crops
Kyodo News, Published on 16/07/2017
» CHANTHABURI - After years of crop and house damage caused by wild elephants in Khaeng Hang Maew กistrict of Chanthaburi province, a local farmer finally found a humane way to keep the hungry jumbos away without harming them -- a beehive fence.
Farmers launch sting operation against elephant raids
Published on 25/08/2016
» CHANTHABURI - To stop wild elephants rampaging through their crops, farmers often put up electric fences, set off firecrackers and even switch crops, from pineapples to pumpkins, which the jumbos don't like much.
Bees, not electric fences, keeping elephants away
Terry Fredrickson, Published on 19/10/2015
» Farmers in Kenya use bees to keep hungry elephants away and now Thai farmers are adopting the idea.
Bees keep hungry jumbos at bay
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 19/10/2015
» Beehives are helping to protect farms in Phu Luang Wildlife Sanctuary in Loei's Phu Rua district by keeping wild elephants away from rice crops, bringing relief to locals who have attempted to fend off elephant incursions for years with little success.