2014 IEF Grants Awards

IEF Grant Awards for 2014 were announced.

IEF requested that all Grant Proposals be submitted by August 16, 2013.

Each proposal underwent an extensive review process and the finalists were selected in December 2013.

The following projects will receive funding from the International Elephant Foundation in 2014:

2014 AFRICAN ELEPHANT IN SITU CONSERVATION FUNDING SUPPORT

Actions to Minimize Illegal Killing of Elephants in Tsavo Conservation Area, Kenya

Alleviating Human-elephant conflict in Nkala Game Management Area, Kafue National Park, Zambia

Support to Joint Conservancy Anti-poaching Team of Northern Rangelands Trust (NRT) to Protect African Elephants in Northern Kenya

Conservation of Elephants in Southern Murchison Falls Conservation Area, Uganda

Disseminating Lessons Learned and Building Capacity through Pachyderm

Development of Orma Community Wildlife Conservancy (Satellite communications & Tracking System), Kenya

Large Elephant Monitoring Project, Kenya

Mounted Horse Patrol Anti-poaching Unit for Mount Kenya

Serengeti Human Elephant Conflict Mitigation Program

Village Scout support for local communities suffering from human/elephant conflict, Lower Zambezi, Zambia

Building National Consensus for Asian Elephant Conservation in Cambodia

Capacity building to strengthen management of captive elephants in Laos

Comparative Study of Wild Elephant Social Behavior in Sri Lanka

Development of Elephant Conservation Response Units, Myanmar

Establishment of Co-existence with Re-colonized Population of Asian Elephant, Nepal

Finding Possibilities of Re-opening Elephant Corridors in Northwestern Wildlife Region, Sri Lanka

Identification of Elephants in Conflict with People Using Molecular Techniques, India

Plantation of Elephant Food Plants and Natural Barrier Plants, Assam, India

Publication of the Gajah, the Journal of the Asian Elephant Specialist Group

Schools Awareness Program, Sri Lanka

Sumatra Elephant Conservation Response Units, Indonesia

Supporting community-based conservation of Asian elephants in Rakhine Yoma, Myanmar

Determining Pharmacokinetic Characteristics of the Antivirual Drug Ganciclovir in Asian Elephants

EEHV Viral Genomics and Pathogenesis.