Once the epicenter for deadly human-elephant conflict, an eastern Nepal village along the Indian border has transformed into a model of coexistence.
Villagers, once fearful, have adopted elephant-resistant crops and beekeeping, and through a rapid response team, they safely guide elephants away.
Government policies, conservation efforts and shifting community attitudes have significantly reduced fatalities, with no deaths reported in the area since 2015.
While Bahundangi offers a model for coexistence, villages along the migratory routes for elephants have become hotspots for human-elephant encounters, requiring the need for conservation corridors and education to mitigate conflicts.
There is a hotel somewhere in Africa which has an elephant migration route which goes through the lobby.
The hotel management, presumably after some futile attempts at a different strategy, simply concluded that it was easier to let the elephants do their thing every few weeks than it was to encourage them to fuck shit up before they did their thing, which is all that would be accomplished if anyone tried to stop them.
Presumably, all the tourists think it’s pretty cool and there are, now, minimal issues.
