Bees Saving Elephants.
Women Leading Change.
Our How Many Elephants Beehive Fence Project in Tanzania is a nature-based solution that reduces human-elephant conflict, empowers women, and protects biodiversity.
Bees Saving Elephants?
In Tanzania and wider Africa, the conflict between farmers and crop-raiding elephants is all too common. When elephants venture into farmland, destroying crops and threatening livelihoods, farmers often feel compelled to retaliate, leading to tragic fatalities on both sides. However, innovative strategies like beehive fences and the protection of wildlife corridors offer a way to break this cycle of conflict.
Our How Many Elephants Beehive Project in Tanzania’s Ngorongoro-Serengeti ecosystem, is a nature-based solution that reduces human-elephant conflict, empowers women, and protects biodiversity.
a nature-based solution
Did you know that Human-elephant conflict is on the rise as farmland expands into ancient elephant corridors. In Tanzania, this tension leads to crop destruction and retaliatory killings. But there’s a solution: bees.
Elephants are scared of bees! That's right, the largest land animal on earth is afraid of one of the smallest, so the beehive fences keep the elephants away from the farmers’ crops and reducing potential conflict.
SO HOW DOES IT WORK?
If an elephant tries to cross the beehive fence, it touches the wire, which will shake up the 40,000 bees per hive, making them buzz around and leaving the elephant with only one option to abort the mission, guiding the elephants onwards to their migration route. And the crazy thing, it actually works. Elephants are ecosystem engineers; protecting them helps maintain biodiversity, soil health, and even carbon storage capacity for climate change action. We need elephants more than ever!
AND, Women ARE Leading The Charge
Local women are trained in beekeeping, honey production, and sustainable agriculture. They earn income, gain influence, and lead their communities in environmental protection. Neema’s journey from fear to empowerment began when she joined the NARI Women’s Beekeeping Group. Here, she learned the art of beekeeping and sustainable agriculture, including how to process honey and use local plants as pesticides. “I feared bees, but now they are my friends,” she says. By adopting these practices, Neema has achieved financial independence, improved her family’s well-being, and fostered a peaceful coexistence with the elephants.
YOUR HIVE
YOUR IMPACT
With each beehive donation, you will receive the following:
• Installation & maintenance of your hive in Tanzania
• A certificate, stunning visuals & tangible impact reports
• A tax-deductible receipt (we’re a UK-registered charity)
• A powerful story your network will love!
OWN A BEEHIVE
FOR £200!
(Yes, really. Your hive. Your impact.)
£10 - could buy 6m of wire to connect hives
£50 - could fund beekeeper training for one woman
£100 - could pay Bee Guardians to monitor the fence
£200 - could sponsor one beehive
£1,000 - could fund five beehives with your logo
£10,000 - could fund one kilometre of beehives with your logo
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