Elephant Conflict With Villagers Prompts Ivory Coast Action
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Oscar Sery says he cycles to his banana and cocoa farm every morning in Ivory Coast with a sinking feeling about what he will find.
“I’m afraid the elephants will have destroyed my crops,” Sery, a 39-year-old wearing jeans and a white T-shirt, said in an interview on Jan. 19 in Toroguhe, a village of 250 people near Daloa, the nation’s third-biggest city. “I’m scared to meet them in my plantation.”