How do you stop elephants from destroying a cocoa farm? Send in the bees

 

(Posted 21st September 2025)

 

Courtesy of African Elephant News

 

Abyssinia Abebe, The Globe and Mail (Canada) September 19, 2025
Each rainy season in southern Ivory Coast, farmers in the town of Grihiri watch in frustration as herds of elephants migrating south from the Dassioko forest in search of fresh water and food cut through their cocoa farms and destroy their crops. Now, some farmers are hoping a tiny but mighty ally can help save their livelihoods by deterring these African forest elephants from entering their fields: bees.
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