By: J. Mason Kollie |Lofa County Correspondent
Lower Lofa County- Thursday, September 18, 2025-In Lower Lofa specifically, Wanhassa and Lukamba districts, wild elephants have destroyed rice farms and other kinds of vegetable gardens in the area.
According to farmers in the affected areas, particularly the rice farmers, wild elephants during the time of farming are moving from farm to farm destroying their young rice and other important vegetation.
“As I speak to you my brother, more than 50 households, individual farmers’ hard labor are completely destroyed by the elephants. We don’t even know what to do as our rice were bursting and getting ready to get ripe for harvest when group of elephants moved in and destroyed everything,” Momoh Kamara Salia; a popular family head from Yandohun Town averred.
“We can’t be protecting wild elephants and we are not protected, we are even afraid to go to the farm because the elephants are large in their numbers,” Kpana Sando said in a sad tune.
This is not the first time for elephants to invade farms in Lower Lofa. Every year the wild elephants often come around and invade various farms thus destroying rice and other vegetables.
Forestry Development Authority (F.D.A) officials continue to call on local farmers not to destroy the Habitats of the Wild Elephants and other Wild species in the forest.
Meanwhile, Forestry Development Authority officials in the county are attributing the rampage of the wild life to some practices indulged into by the affected farmers.
Investigation continues…
