{"page":"\u003clink rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"https://lessonplanet.com/assets/packs/css/resources-c03aa079.css\" /\u003e\n\u003clink rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"https://lessonplanet.com/assets/packs/css/lp_boclips_stylesheets-517835be.css\" media=\"all\" /\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-title='Bees help deter human-animal conflict' data-url='/boclips/videos/5c54d6c0d8eafeecae206198' data-video-url='/boclips/videos/5c54d6c0d8eafeecae206198' id='bo_player_modal'\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='boclips-resource-page modal-dialog panel-container'\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='react-notifications-root'\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-header'\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-type'\u003e\n\u003ci aria-hidden='true' class='fai fa-regular fa-circle-play'\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\nVideo\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003ch1 class='rp-title' id='video-title'\u003e\nBees help deter human-animal conflict\n\u003c/h1\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-actions'\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='mr-1'\u003e\n\u003ca class=\"btn btn-success\" data-posthog-event=\"Signup: LP Signup Activity\" data-posthog-location=\"body_link_boclips\" data-remote=\"true\" href=\"/subscription/new\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGet Free Access\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e for 10 Days\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e!\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-body'\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-info'\u003e\n\u003cdiv aria-label='Hide resource details' class='rp-hide-info' role='button' tabindex='0'\u003e\u0026times;\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003ci aria-label='Expand resource details' class='rp-expand-info fai fa-solid fa-up-right-and-down-left-from-center' role='button' tabindex='0'\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\n\u003ci aria-label='Compress resource details' class='rp-compress-info fai fa-solid fa-down-left-and-up-right-to-center' role='button' tabindex='0'\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-rating'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='resource-pool'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='pool-label'\u003ePublisher:\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='pool-name'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='text'\u003e\u003ca data-publisher-id=\"30356011\" href=\"/search?publisher_ids%5B%5D=30356011\"\u003eCurated Video\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-description'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='short-description'\u003eLEAD IN:               South African conservationists have turned to one of the smaller members of the natural world to help protect one of the largest.              They're using bees to deter elephants from damaging trees and...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eLEAD IN: \u003cbr/\u003e              South African conservationists have turned to one of the smaller members of the natural world to help protect one of the largest.\u003cbr/\u003e              They're using bees to deter elephants from damaging trees and encroaching on human settlements.   \u003cbr/\u003e              \u003cbr/\u003e              STORY-LINE:\u003cbr/\u003e              Elephants love to eat grass, fruit, leaves and bark - and they need more than 100 kilogrammes of it a day. \u003cbr/\u003e              They're blind to human labels warning them off orchards, plantations or nature reserves - they just see suitable food and eat it - and that is where problems arise.  \u003cbr/\u003e              Historically there has always been conflict between elephants and humans when both inhabit the same area. Elephants are by nature destructive in the manner they forage for food, destroying indigenous trees and wiping out croplands, often to landowners' dismay. \u003cbr/\u003e              But now it's a case of once bitten twice shy. \u003cbr/\u003e              The NGO Elephants Alive has been experimenting by putting up bee hives in trees to try to stop elephants encroaching on human plantations and protected trees.\u003cbr/\u003e              \"There is a general consensus that elephants are very destructive in terms of trees, and they are to a certain degree, but it's not just the elephants that cause habitat change, and because big trees are iconic we are trying to find ways to protect the trees, so that landowners are happy with having elephants in their area,\" says Elephants Alive researcher, Jess Wilmot. \u003cbr/\u003e              Hoedspruit in Mpumalanga province borders the Kruger National Park and a host of other private game and nature reserves. It's in this area the Elephants Alive team is conducting its experiment.\u003cbr/\u003e              \"Landowners won't be really willing to open up if they know they are going to be destroying their trees, so we're finding ways with the wire netting and with the bee hives, and there are also cones that they pack around the trees to find ways to mitigate tree destruction,\" says Wilmot. \u003cbr/\u003e              Although an elephant's skin is about three centimetres thick, it is very sensitive. An adult elephant can easily feel a fly landing on it's back, so it will try to avoid a bee sting whenever possible. \u003cbr/\u003e              \"And bees generally go to where there is moisture, so they typically target their trunks which the elephants don't like at all. So once they've been stung once, they build (up), they build that memory and they won't return,\" says Wilmot.  \u003cbr/\u003e              As well as not liking being stung, Wilmot says the elephants are terrified that the bees will go into their trunks, which would cause breathing difficulties or even suffocation. \u003cbr/\u003e              The project first started in 2015 and so far has returned good results. The team says the beehives have proved significantly effective at preventing elephants from impacting Marula trees in any form, although the presence of beehives did not prevent elephants from moving through the beehive site.\u003cbr/\u003e              Because of the success of the project, deteriorating wooden hives are now being replaced with new ones. \u003cbr/\u003e              Known as BeePaks, the new hives were developed by beekeeper Mark Collins. \u003cbr/\u003e              \"It's amazing how a creature so small can actually scare away an elephant isn't it? But they sting the elephants in the trunks and the ears and the eyes, and the elephants leg it,\" says Collins. \u003cbr/\u003e              The hive's housing and removable parts are made of fibreglass and are largely indestructible. These hives will also protect the bee colonies a lot better from adverse conditions, and assist in progressing to commercial honey production in the future.\u003cbr/\u003e            \u003cbr/\u003e\u003cbr/\u003e              ASSOCIATED PRESS\u003cbr/\u003e              Hoedspruit, South Africa - November 1, 2017 \u003cbr/\u003e              1. Wide of elephant, zoom in \u003cbr/\u003e              2. Mid of elephant's head\u003cbr/\u003e              3. Close of elephant tusks/trunk\u003cbr/\u003e              4. Wide driving shot of game reserve road\u003cbr/\u003e              5. Jess Wilmot, elephant researcher for Elephants Alive, getting out of car\u003cbr/\u003e              6. Mid of Wilmot photographing elephant\u003cbr/\u003e              7. SOUNDBITE (English) Jess Wilmot, elephant researcher for Elephants Alive:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"There is a general consensus that elephants are very destructive in terms of trees, and they are to a certain degree, but it's not just the elephants that cause habitat change, and because big trees are iconic we are trying to find ways to protect the trees, so that land owners are happy with having elephants in their area.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              8. Mid of elephant eating leaves\u003cbr/\u003e              9. Wide of a Bushveld tree\u003cbr/\u003e              10. Wide of an uprooted tree trunk\u003cbr/\u003e              11. SOUNDBITE (English) Jess Wilmot, elephant researcher for Elephants Alive:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"Landowners won't be really willing to open up if they know they are going to be destroying their trees, so we're finding ways with the wire netting and with the bee hives, and there are also cones that they pack around the trees to find ways to mitigate tree destruction.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              12. Mid of Wilmot with her elephant tracking antennae\u003cbr/\u003e              13. Mid of elephant amongst leaves\u003cbr/\u003e              14. SOUNDBITE (English) Jess Wilmot, elephant researcher for Elephants Alive:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"And bees generally go to where there is moisture, so they typically target their trunks which the elephants don't like at all. So once they've been stung once, they build (up), they build that memory and they won't return.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              ASSOCIATED PRESS\u003cbr/\u003e              Hoedspruit, South Africa - October 31, 2017\u003cbr/\u003e              15. Mid of 'Jejane' gate (private nature reserve)\u003cbr/\u003e              16. Elephants Alive vehicle entering reserve.\u003cbr/\u003e              17. Wooden hive hanging in tree\u003cbr/\u003e              18. Close of wooden beehive hanging\u003cbr/\u003e              19. Close up of walking boots of bee keeping crew\u003cbr/\u003e              20. Wide of bee keepers walking\u003cbr/\u003e              21. Wide of 'beekeeping crew'\u003cbr/\u003e              22. Close of 'smoker' pacifying the bees \u003cbr/\u003e              23. SOUNDBITE (English) Mark Collins, Bee keeper and designer of the Bee-pak:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"It's amazing how a creature so small can actually scare away an elephant isn't it? But they sting the elephants in the trunks and the ears and the eyes, and the elephants leg it.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              24. UPSOUND (English) Ronnie Makukule, Manager of Elephants Alive bee project:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"So there's a lot of movement of all animals around here, and it's part of Greater Kruger, it's a Big Five area so it's always good to keep our eyes open.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              ASSOCIATED PRESS \u003cbr/\u003e              Hoedspruit, South Africa - November 1, 2017 \u003cbr/\u003e              25. Wide of giraffes\u003cbr/\u003e              26. Mid of female kudu (antelope)\u003cbr/\u003e              ASSOCIATED PRESS \u003cbr/\u003e              Hoedspruit, South Africa  - October 31, 2017\u003cbr/\u003e              27. SOUNDBITE (English) Mark Collins, Bee Keeper and designer of the BeePak\u003cbr/\u003e              \"Okay so what we are going to do now is we're going to change the old wooden hives into…into the BeePaks.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              28. Mid of beekeepers removing old wooden hive\u003cbr/\u003e              29. Bees being scraped and shaken from old wooden hives\u003cbr/\u003e              30. Close of Collins removing honey frames from old hive into the new BeePak\u003cbr/\u003e              31. Close of Collins placing honey frames into new BeePak\u003cbr/\u003e              32. Close of bees and 'grille' (part of BeePak)\u003cbr/\u003e              33. Mid of beekeepers preparing suspension to hang the hive\u003cbr/\u003e              34. BeePak being lifted onto wooden suspension tray \u003cbr/\u003e              35. Mid of mark hoisting BeePak into tree\u003cbr/\u003e              36. Close of Bushveld flower\u003cbr/\u003e              37. Mid of Mark fitting a bottle of sugar water to the BeePak, UPSOUND: (English) Mark Collins: \"The sugar water helps keep them happy and fed after the trauma of being moved you know.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              38. Close of bees and sugar water bottle\u003cbr/\u003e              39. Close of dead tree trunk\u003cbr/\u003e              40. Low angle view of tree with wire meshing wrapped around the trunk.\u003cbr/\u003e              41. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ronnie Makukule, Manager of the Elephants Alive bee project:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"So in this block we have 50 wire netted trees, just to see what the elephant impact is going to be on the wire netted trees or they going to avoid pushing these trees and go to the actual hive trees.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              ASSOCIATED PRESS \u003cbr/\u003e              Hoedspruit, South Africa - November 1, 2017 \u003cbr/\u003e              42. Elephant walking in profile\u003cbr/\u003e              ASSOCIATED PRESS \u003cbr/\u003e              Hoedspruit, South Africa  - October 31, 2017\u003cbr/\u003e              43. Wide of beehive hanging from tree.\u003cbr/\u003e              44. 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