in the middle of the south african bush right next to kruger national park zoo all of gests robin cook and brownie. have set up fifty beehives. to conservationists attesting by the honeybees can protect selected trees inside the park from the park's largest residents' elephants. just like people elephants don't like getting stung they have an acute sense of smell and hearing so one hint of a beehive and they're off. and the reason we're doing that is that in our projected areas of africa we've got a build up of a lot. and dane's a tease and concern over the impact that they may be having on our large tree species and so we're trying to find ways that we can mitigate the effects that elephants have on trees and they by placing honeybees in these trees we hoping that we can find a new method to actually protect the trees from elephant impacts. while elephant populations are in serious decline in other parts of africa their numbers are growing in south africa he n.h.l. reserves a fenced in and equipped with also official reaching homes protected and well provided for the big animals have