TERF Project detail
Methods to Reduce HEC
Affected communities respond to the problems of HEC in many different ways – some activities are similar in different countries and some activities vary depending on the location and factors such as level of impact, social and religious factors, education levels, culture and socio-economic status of the affected communities.
Despite the high variety of methods used to deal with HEC, we can classify them all into 8 main methods:Use of sound or noise
1. Use of sound or noise
2. Use of light or fire
3. Adaptation of the local environment/land use changes
4. Physical barriers such as fences, electric fences and hedges
5. Compensation for losses
6. Killing of problem elephants
7. Translocation of problem elephants, and
8. Use of chemicals to repel the elephants.
Though all of these work on the short term, none have been found to have long term effectiveness as the elephants adapt to, or overcome the obstacles put in their way. To-date no country has successfully solved the HEC problem.