Article originally printed in the 2020 Conservation Issue of the Journal of the Elephant Managers Association
Kibale Forest Schools’ Program: Kasiisi Project Elephant Conservation
Emily Otali and Elizabeth Ross, The Kasiisi Project, Uganda
Teaching the next generation to care about conservation is how we create a community consensus for conservation and […]
Help school children in Uganda learn about elephants, conservation, and their natural heritage. Due to the global pandemic and COVID-19, students participating in the Kibale Forest Schools Program are lacking supplies. When they could sit together in a schoolroom they could share crayons and other school […]
We met our goal!
Because of all of you, our wonderful supporters, the International Elephant Foundation has reached our goal to provide a Toyota Land Cruiser for the wildlife rangers in Murchison Falls National Park.
The truck is currently being ordered and we will keep you informed […]
Tales from the Field
I recently had an unfortunate ordeal while traveling, one that many of us have experienced. After landing in Washington, DC, I wearily made my way to the baggage carousel, […]
Tales from the Field
My ranger companion and I were coming back from visiting the mitigation experiments we had in a farming community in the Tsavo ecosystem of Kenya. As we often do, we encountered […]
Tales from the Field
With only a few days’ notice I found myself in Sumatra for a meeting with conservation partners. A three-day trip into the hutan (the Indonesian word for forest) meant I could travel light with only a small […]
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Did you know that being a wildlife ranger is one of the most dangerous jobs on the planet? Over 100 rangers died in the line of duty in 2018 alone.
The dense lowland forests in the north of the island of Sumatra hold some of the world’s most magnificent, rare, and unique animals and some of the most dedicated people devoted to their preservation. Working out of 7 base camps throughout Aceh Province, the Conservation Response Unit (CRU) teams of skilled, conservation-management trained mahouts and their elephants are the frontline workers protecting wildlife and habitat. And they need our help.
One of the words we keep hearing these days is "uncertain". We live in "uncertain times", the future of businesses is "uncertain", and even the future of conservation is "uncertain". With this uncertainty comes a need for people to understand how our world is changing in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
