Making a Chili Cloud

Honeyguide Foundation, with critical support from The Nature Conservancy, has created a unique, four-step elephant alarm system to protect a villager’s food source without harming the elephant.

 

Step three involves throwing a "chili cloud" — chili powder mixed with sand and a lit firecracker inside of a condom — near where the elephant is grazing.

 

This alarm system does not harm the elephant, it just make the elephant uncomfortable enough to turn around.

 

Photo: © Kilimanjaro Film Institute

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