A 1-800 Number That Helps Animals and Humans Coexist | National Geographic

if it’s a herd of elephants that I’ve
completely destroyed their crops the
reaction is to hit back at the animal
either injuring it up killing it fatally
one of the biggest things we found was
that even though the government has
compensation mechanisms in place that
less than thirty percent of people who
were affected we’re filing L&L someone
of 11 though I got an allegory bundle
mother Martha a big pillow dock 11a
curator Abigail da classically killed
again recorded more than optimal no no
more pit number and so we set up this
very elegant system where it’s connected
to an 1-800 number we circulated this
number to three hundred villages around
fine deeper and all over that people
would call the number and our fielding
would respond every single time they
would go there they would assess what
had happened and they would help them
file the documentation in just 10 months
we’ve now have three thousand families
what we’re doing is just improving the
efficiency perhaps in some times
removing the corruption that’s in place
and getting people to feel that somebody
cares somebody will come when I lose my
crops somebody will come when my cows
kill somebody will come when my family
members injured what’s happened now with
tourism is that there are rules in place
but in terms of regulating how tourists
behave what they wear how they take
their pictures I’ve seen huge variations
depending basically on the guide and the
naturalist that’s sitting with them so
you have a very good guide and
naturalist the tours are very
well-behaved