WATCH TOWERS A high, safe place can be helpful for active farm-guarding at night and observing approaching elephants Using watchtowers and night-guarding helps with enabling farmers to react quickly and have an early warning system when elephants are nearby. The main purpose is to provide a high, safe vantage spot to guard and observe the surrounding area, and to send alarm signals
method 1 : Small, Farm based
Best used with noise and light deterrents
Small watch platforms can be made up a tree or on top of houses. This is ideal for individual farm guarding at a household level. Through active guarding farmers can help reduce elephant crop raids and farm visits
Various types of tree platforms constructed by farmers that overlook individual farms in Kajire village in Sagalla, Kenya. Top left & bottom © Meha Kumar/ Save the Elephants, top right © Jane Wynyard/Save the Elephants
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