A New Type of Elephant Fence: Permeable for People and Game but Not for Elephant.

Asian elephants around Bardiya National Park (lowland Nepal) regularly raid crops in the park's buffer zone and occasionally kill people. Retaliatory killing has been absent till now but emotions run high, and people requested a fence or a concrete wall. We designed an electric fence that allows people and livestock to pass freely but stops elephant. The fence has a single electrified wire, 9000 V, with electrified braces and 'whiskers' placing the poles out of reach of trunks. The design was tested experimentally, and after breach of the prototype, the final design has not been breached to date. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]