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Scaring Elephants With Chilies

World's hottest chili to ward off elephants from homes and crops in Assam's villages.

By LIFS December 3, 2007 at 10:42 AM
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Wildlife conservationists are employing the world's hottest chili to ward off elephants from homes and crops in Assam's villages.

Experts are smearing the bhut jolokia, believed to be the world's hottest chili, on jute fences and using chili smoke bombs whose strong smell drives away the animal.

 
"We fill straw nests with pungent dry chili and attach them to sticks before burning it. The fireball emits a strong pungent smell that succeeds in driving away elephants," Nandita Hazarika of the Assam Haathi (Elephant) Project told the media.

India's Northeast region has the world's largest concentration of Asiatic elephants, with Assam accounting for 5,000 of them. 

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