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Chilli bombs and honeybees: Weapons in Tanzania’s human-elephant conflict

Animal clashes with villagers close to national parks or wildlife migratory routes have been rising in recent years.

In Tanzania, some are fighting elephants with chilli powder and even bees.

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Mwana Athumani Msemo's homestead sits encased in the undulating grasslands that surround Mount Kilimanjaro, an area so quiet and remote that clucking and bleating from her chicken and goat farm are the only sounds to be heard for kilometres.

The landscape, with its crisp air and lush greens, holds glorious beauty. But for Msemo, it also holds ever-present anguish. It was somewhere in this wilderness that her husband took their cattle out to graze one afternoon two years ago and never returned. By the time the village search team found him at the end of a long trail of elephant footprints, it was dark and he had been dead for hours – a gaping hole where his stomach once was.

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