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Coping with raiding elephants and hippos
20.07.2010 09:28 "Agro Perspectiva" (Kyiv) —
Are raiding elephants bothering you? No problem. Drive them off with pepper spray.
Are lion, cheetah or spotted hyena attacking your farm animals? Consider a guard donkey.
Marauding baboons giving you a hard time? Offer them a snake sandwich.
These are some of the colourful tips contained in a toolkit produced by FAO to help resolve, prevent and mitigate the growing problem of conflict between humans and wild animals. And while the measures suggested may raise a smile, there is nothing light-hearted about the problem they are designed to address.
With the worlds population growing at some 75 million a year, humans and wildlife are having to squeeze ever more tightly together, increasing the risk of conflict between them. The result is a growing thereat to peoples lives and livelihoods and to their health from animal-borne diseases.
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