Bees help tackle elephant-human conflict in Kenya
Bees help tackle elephant-human conflict in Kenya

Kenya's growing elephant population and increasing human encroachment on their habitat is making a peaceful coexistence difficult.

Now farmers in Taita-Taveta county, near Tsavo National Park, are protecting their crops with an innovative program by Save the Elephants charity - using African honeybees to deter the giant mammals who fear the tiny insect.

"I think people are surprised how well they work, and it's a nice nature-based solution as well," says the project’s lead, Ewan Brenan.