If you are having problems with wild elephants trampling around in your ‘hood, then this capsaicin-laced solution will soon be all the rage. Check out this article excerpt from Earthtimes.org:

Hot chilli peppers keep elephants at bay in India

Posted : Sun, 18 Nov 2007 10:07:00 GMT
Author : DPA

New Delhi - Wildlife authorities in India’s north-eastern Assam state are using hot chilli peppers to keep rampaging wild elephants away from human settlements and farmlands, news reports said Sunday. Forest rangers have put up rope barriers smeared with Bhot Jolokia, one of the world’s hottest chillies, around settlements bordering forest land in Balipara in Sonitpur district, about 210 kilometres north of Assam’s main city Guwahati, IANS news agency reported.

“We have put up this hot fencing on an experimental basis and the results are positive with elephant depredation in the area definitely decreasing,” Assam’s Forest and Wildlife Minister Rockybul Hussain was quoted as saying.

“Grease and hot pepper oil made from Bhot Jolokia are mixed and applied to the rope fencing. The grease acts as a waterproof. The moment the elephants make contact with the rope it causes irritation to the animals,” Hussain said.

The Bhot Jolokia, recognized as the world’s hottest chilli in 2007 by the Guinness Book of World Records, grows widely in north-eastern India and is a part of the staple diet of the local people.

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