LABUHAN RATU, East Lampung: The residents at 22 villages near the Way Kambas National Park have become wary about rampaging elephants, which have damaged their ready-to-harvest plantations
ABUHAN RATU, East Lampung: The residents at 22 villages near the Way Kambas National Park have become wary about rampaging elephants, which have damaged their ready-to-harvest plantations.
They say the elephants cannot be shooed away by torches, bamboo drum rattles or gun shots.
They complained they had their paddy, corn, cassava and coffee plantations disrupted by the rampaging elephants. A flock of up to 20 elephants can damage between 4 and 6 hectares of land.
Sayuti, a villager, said the elephant-human conflict had been ongoing for 30 years with no solution in the horizon.
"We have yet to verify the financial losses from the failed harvest.
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