Charles Mukiibi
16 November 2008
Kampala — MURCHISON Falls managers are planning to install machines with telephone sensors to alert game rangers and wardens whenever the elephants are moving out of the park.
The park also plans to dig trences at its boundaries with human settlement and set up bee-hives to prevent the animals from straying into gardens of the residents.
Addressing 602 residents of Koch Goma sub-county in Amuru district, the park's chief warden, Edward Asalu, said the management also plans to buy G-one guns because elephants have got used to the sound of the AK 47 machine guns currently being used.
Most of the residents of the area are internally displaced persons (IDPs).
The IDPs have been planning to sue the Government and the Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) for the damage caused by the elephants.
"Elephants are very different from human beings. They move and eat at night, unlike us human beings," he said.
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