There she sees Narnia in the One Hundred Years Winter, under the rule of the White Witch, the evil self-proclaimed Queen of Narnia and meets Mr. Lucy is the first of the Pevensies to enter Narnia through a magical wardrobe in the Professor's old house. In 1940, World War II began, and Lucy and her siblings were evacuated from London for their safety to escape the constant bombing of the capital by the Luftwaffe of Nazi Germany, taking up a temporary residence in the country manor of an old man known as Professor Kirke. She grew up in London with her mother, father, eldest brother Peter, sister Susan, and brother Edmund. Lucy Pevensie was born in 1932, the fourth of four children. Lucy and her elder sister Susan at the train station. Despite being called a "liar", Lucy has come to forgive her siblings, which is why she is a very admirable character she still has a loving heart and can forgive anyone.Īppearances The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Lucy is the closest to Aslan, and often seeks his guidance. Lucy has a great desire to help others, and uses her cordial that was given to her by Father Christmas. But she is full of courage and is much more adventurous than her sister, Susan, which is why she never stopped believing in Narnia. Lucy loves animals, and makes friends with many creatures and was sad to see that all of Narnia was invaded by humans. Of course, even though he knew Lucy was right about Narnia all along, he only said they were pretending when he himself went through the wardrobe. As a young child, she was often teased by Edmund and he thought she was playing "childish games" about Narnia. Lucy is the most faithful out of all her siblings which is why she saw Aslan across the gorge and her brothers and sister did not. 2.1 The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.“There is some evidence that a healthy bee population can have as much as a 15-30% increase in farm crop production,” says King. The beehives also offer myriad secondary benefits. Read: How big dogs are helping out big cats Not only does it help protect crops, she says, but trees, water pipes and tanks and grain stores that elephants have attacked before. It’s a solution preferable to the desperate measures previously employed by farmers, including firecrackers, fire balls, dogs, stones, spears and guns, King reports. “Once they learn that there is an active beehive in a tree or on some posts around a farm, we suspect that they remember that local threat and will avoid it in the future.” Read: The quest to save the world’s biggest fish In return “elephants emit a low frequency, infrasonic rumble in response to disturbed bees sounds that warns other elephants in the area to retreat.” “Elephants can identify bees by sound alone, indicating that they may associate the sound with a negative historic event,” says King. In this instance, elephants’ long memories serves farmers well. “Talking to local herdsmen and ranchers during my initial study up in northern Kenya, I collated many anecdotal stories of elephants breaking open wild beehives as they foraged in Acacia trees, and the bees coming out and stinging the elephant up the trunk, around the eyes and in the mouth,” she recalls.Ī beenhive fence with farmer Karakara. It endangers the livelihoods of farmers and the lives of the giant mammals, who have been shot or poisoned in return.īut an environmentalist has come up with an ingenious solution that might just save both parties: the African honeybee.įounded on the doctoral research of Oxford DPhil Lucy King, the Elephants and Bees Project, part of Save the Elephants, utilizes the knowledge that the world’s largest land animal is extremely averse to bees. Standing in the way of herds are fields of maize, beans, peas and cassava, often trampled and eaten by elephants. Occasionally farmers have settled on natural migration corridors for African elephants, giving birth to a fractious relationship. Elephants are a big issue for farmers in parts of Africa – but whether they want to or not, the two are going to have to learn to live together.Ī population boom on the continent calls for an increase in resources, and farmers are expanding to accommodate mouths to feed.
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