Uganda Trumpets 'Vuvuzelas' as New Tool to Deter Elephant Attacks

In Ugandan villages near national parks, shifting elephant migration routes have become a real danger. So the Uganda Wildlife Authority has been holding seminars in rural communities and giving people new - and non-lethal - methods to deter the elephants: vuvuzelas. Armed with the plastic trumpets, villagers are defending their homesteads.   Although natural elephant corridors have existed for centuries in Uganda, in recent years growth in both human and elephant populations have led...

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