New map could save the lives of humans and elephants

Human-elephant conflicts normally happen because both species are competing for space and also for food.

One of the scientists who helped create the map, Jacqui Morrison, says elephant habitats have “shrunk to seven per cent of their historic range”.

So this can lead to clashes.

For example, farmers use land to grow crops, so they can sell the food and make money, but when elephants see a field of crops, they see a “highly nutritious source of food”.

So if an elephant eats it all, Jacqui says it can threaten “livelihoods and welfare”.