Training farmers to grow red pepper as a HEC ( human elephant conflict) strategy to reduce the death rate of elephants and crop damage.

This project is much needed by the community because it puts in place a sustainable HEC strategy, the growing of red pepper live hedges along their gardens that will deter elephants , which is friendly to the farmers and the elephants.

The project will address the HEC threat through creation of a sustainable local solutions engaging farmers in growing red pepper live hedges, create awareness about elephant conservation for improving local farmer’s livelihood, promoting/encouraging farmers to a adopt a humane, non-lethal, techniques to reduce farmer-Elephant conflict and improve the knowledge base of local farmers towards conservation of elephants.

Results:

- Awareness creation about how the conservation of elephants will improve local farmers

Livelihoods.

- Local farming communities will get awareness of HEC mitigation strategies and conservation which will reduce the Elephant human conflict and live in harmony with wild life.

- The number of casualties as a result of elephant human conflict will go down because of

HEC measures put in place by this project.

- The local farming community will acquire knowledge on wild animals’ behaviour and tactics to safe guard from aggressive wild elephants.

- Farmers income will be improve as they will have good yields from their gardens and also earn extra income from the sell of red pepper that has local demand.

- The project will focus on mitigation strategies that will build the capacity of local farmers to support elephant conservation and anti-poaching.

The population of elephants will increase as a result of HEC Strategies created by this

Long term change:

- The Strategy uses a simple technology that is simple to adopt, and use.

- The knowledge base of the project beneficiaries will be improved which knowledge they will use in sustaining the project hence creating along term change.

- The project will improve the income of farmers by earning extra money from the sell of red pepper, forcing farmers to continue growing red pepper that will deter elephants from damaging farmer’s crops creating a long term sustainable change.

- The number of elephants will increase, which will create a sustainable change in the conservation of elephants.