Sentences with phrase «as elephant grass»

Environmental problems of generating electricity could be tackled by switching to bio-fuels such as elephant grass, straw and wood from poplar trees, claims the Dutch energy and environment organisation Novem.

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The Tutsi, by the simple fact of being a minority, may bear the brunt of violence as a group, following the Swahili proverb that «when elephants fight the grass gets hurt».

The reed can grow as high as 3 metres in one season, so local farmers call it «elephant grass».

In 1995 U.S. researchers found that carbon isotope ratios in elephants at Amboseli National Park in Kenya had shifted over decades, reflecting changes in the elephants» diet as they crowded into the park to escape poaching, ate up the park's trees, and switched to grass.

«When the elephants fight, the grass gets trampled» goes the African proverb, and as the teachers union and the Oakland Unified School District negotiate a much - needed raise, some elephants are raising their feet, and already the children are feeling it.

During the rainy season, the Kennedy Vlei is littered with flamboyant colours from the seasonal wild flowers that emerge as the first rains begin and, as the grass dries out, large herds of buffalo, zebra and elephant are in abundance.

The water level of the lake provides rich grasses for huge herds of buffalo and elephant as well as rhino, hippo and crocodiles and a great variety of antelope and plains game.