Mt Kenya to get electric fence to stop wildlife straying (BBC)

Kenya's government is to inaugurate a project that will encircle much of the country's highest peak with an electric fence to stop wild animals straying.

It is being designed to stop wildlife, particularly elephants, on Mt Kenya from destroying crops on nearby farms.

On completion it will be about 400km (250 miles) long, stand 2m (6ft 6in) high and extend a metre underground.

The charity building the fence, Rhino Ark, believes it will take five years to complete.

"It is going to encircle 2,000 sq km (772 sq miles) of indigenous forests on the mountain, and a source of many, many rivers and outflows in all directions from the mountains," Colin Church from Rhino Ark told the BBC.
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more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-19517183




Ummmm ... this strikes me as really odd or really desperate. Maybe desperation is called for, who knows ?

If the fence could keep poachers *out*, I'd be all for it.