Snare Mountain

The International Elephant Foundation (IEF) is sharing exclusive photos by world-renowned photojournalist Paul Hilton dubbed “Snare Mountain,” a massive pile of wire snares and […]

Author: Sarah Conley
International Elephant Foundation
(originally appeared in the Journal of the Elephant Managers Association (JEMA) Volume 33, No. 3. November 2022) Founded in 1998, the International Elephant Foundation’s (IEF) mission has always been to […]

Tales from the Field Cravings in the Hutan
By Sarah Conley, International Elephant Foundation Photo Credit: Sarah Conley – Waiting by the river for the CRU elephants. With only a few days’ notice I found […]

#GivingTuesday is today! As you decide on your charitable giving for 2018, we hope you consider supporting the International Elephant Foundation!

Last year IEF-funded patrols and habitat protection teams across Asia and Africa removed 3,199 snares. Imagine what […]

Fourteen Community Scouts in the Lower Zambezi area (Luangwa District which is part of Rufunsa Game Management Area) have been working and putting their lives on the line without receiving their salaries since December 2017. These brave […]

Photo: Stephen teaching knot skills to delegates at an annual EMA conference. Photo Courtesy of Daryl Hoffman The International Elephant Foundation is saddened to announce the passing of Stephen Eisele, a valued colleague and friend to many […]

The IEF supported Emergency Elephant Response Units (EERU) teams in Myanmar have worked with the local forest police to catch and arrest 2 poachers! The Forestry Police arrested an elephant poaching ring in Irrawaddy Region’s Ngapudaw Township […]

Kenya’s Biggest Elephant Killed By Poachers
Paula Kahumbu, The Guardian
June 13, 2014

It is 4 am and I have been sitting at my computer for hours. I just can’t sleep after hearing the terrible news that Satao, the world’s […]