North West district Council chairman, Tebogo Bethia, has hailed the use of chili peppers to help farming communities to peacefully coexist with the problematic elephant population of Ngamiland. Ngamiland and the Chobe have the largest elephant population in Botswana.
Often this leads to conflict with humans when farmers shoot at elephants that have wandered into their ploughing fields and when elephants kill farmers in self-protection.
