Beekeeper aims to protect village from elephants

 

(Posted 10th April 2026)

 

Courtesy of African Elephant News

Bridie Adams, BBC (Britain), April 9, 2026
A woman from Worcester is working on a project to build a 6km (3.73 mile) “beehive fence” designed to prevent elephants from entering farmland in Tanzania. Rachel Monger, a piano teacher who lives in St John’s, is working with international group Emmanuel International to support a community bordering the Ruaha National Park, where officials said elephants were destroying crops and injuring people. Although elephants are the world’s largest land mammals, Monger said they were known to avoid bees.
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