We are excited to announce a unique opportunity to travel to Africa with IEF staff and visit THREE of our conservation projects in Kenya! For the first time ever, we are giving everyone the opportunity to travel across the globe and see in-person the life-changing conservation work IEF supports.

IEF has partnered with trusted tour agency Classic Escapes to build an exclusive adventure! Taking place from 2-13 November, 2025, you will visit:

• The Big Tusker Project in Tsavo, Kenya,
• The Mount Kenya Trust Horse Patrol Team,
• Northern Rangelands Trust

Check out the full itinerary here.

Space is limited. Sign up today to secure your spot for this trip of a lifetime!

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Questions?

Call Classic Escapes at 718-280-5000 / 800-627-1244 or email them at info@classicescapes.com.

Close Encounters of the Endangered Kind
by Tricia Berry

In May of this year, IEF’s Executive Director Deborah Olson took major donors Tricia and Joe Berry to visit select projects in Africa. Tricia has written about their incredible adventures and we will serialize it here in our eNewsletter. The first episode is below.

Episode 1: The Journey Begins

Another huge bull in musth almost collided with our Land Cruiser. If he was startled he didn’t show it, but he did show he was annoyed. Again we were faced with a bull elephant who clearly had decided the road was his and his alone, and he was not going anywhere, but we were. He continued strutting directly toward us.

Episode 1: The Journey Begins

Another huge bull in musth almost collided with our Land Cruiser. If he was startled he didn’t show it, but he did show he was annoyed. Again we were faced with a bull elephant who clearly had decided the road was his and his alone, and he was not going anywhere, but we were. He continued strutting directly toward us.

We are three animal-loving Americans with a particular appreciation for elephants. My husband Joe and I live in San Diego and are avid supporters of the U.S.-based International Elephant Foundation (IEF), and our companion was our friend and advisor Deborah Olson, Executive Director of IEF based in Fort Worth, Texas. The plan was to travel to Africa following central East Africa’s rainy season to visit IEF conservation projects that Joe and I had been supporting in Zambia, Kenya and Uganda.

Debbie had put months into contacting all the program managers to make sure we could connect with them in a meaningful way within a three-week window. Now we would visit in person from halfway around the world. We had no idea how much more enlightening, rewarding, and somewhat dicey this trip would be from anything we could have imagined or arranged on our own. In my mind, no matter where you journey, that’s the most exciting part – the unpredictability. And this trip had it in spades. Continue reading Episode 1 here.