{"id":11050,"date":"2022-08-16t17:16:01","date_gmt":"2022-08-16t17:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dpetrov.2create.studio\/planet\/wordpress\/bees-and-chili-peppers-a-solution-to-human-wildlife-conflict-in-zimbabwe\/"},"modified":"2023-04-19t21:34:23","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19t21:34:23","slug":"human-wildlife-zimbabwe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/\/www.getitdoneaz.com\/story\/human-wildlife-zimbabwe\/","title":{"rendered":"bees and chili peppers: a solution to human-wildlife conflict in zimbabwe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\u201cwhooooop!\u201d the sound of an elephant. a trumpet greeting \u2014 or warning \u2014 urging us to take action against poaching and human-wildlife conflict. hambai wild, a social enterprise founded by taku mutezo, intends to do just that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
mutezo is a wildlife lawyer, farmer, and mandela washington fellow from the teapot-shaped landlocked country in southern africa known as zimbabwe. this country is not only mutezo\u2019s home, but host to a quarter of the world\u2019s elephant population.<\/p>\n\n\n
\ntaku mutezo is a wildlife lawyer, farmer, and mandela washington fellow. she founded humbai wild in hopes of taking action to reduce human-wildlife conflict. (photos courtesy taku mutezo)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n
as a child, mutezo spent most of her summer holidays in a small rural village known as nyanyadzi in the town of chimanimani. while there, she nursed a love of nature, community, and agriculture, as she spent most of her leisure time in the fields with friends or in the wild. when mutezo\u2019s father got a job for a coal mining company, her family had to relocate \u2014 and their new home just so happened to be situated around one of the oldest national parks in zimbabwe, hwange national park \u2014 also known as zim park. while at the park, she learned that every 15 minutes, an elephant is killed in the wild. this explains why only about 400,000 elephants are left in africa today, as opposed to the 10 million wild elephants that roamed the continent in the 1930s, according to the world wildlife fund<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n