Assessing Elephant Population Viability and Mitigating HEC in Cambodia’s Cardamom Mountains and Establishment of a Human-Elephant Conflict Response Network in Cambodia, Cambodia

Changing farming practices to “elephant- friendly” methods using non-palatable crops raised awareness at the local level of the importance of strategic land-use planning and the economic benefits it can bring, increased the academic and practical capacity of staff which helped to ensure the long-term sustainability of the CECG program, and reduced human-elephant conflict and stress on surrounding pristine elephant habitat. This project was guided and managed with the assistance of local farmers who were involved in issues of agriculture, land use planning, education and mitigation of human-elephant conflict and it conserved key elephant habitat including historical elephant corridors by piloting Participatory Land Use Planning (PLUP).

IEF #1004

Project Years: 2004 – 2011

Project Partners:
Fauna & Flora International, Cambodian Elephant Conservation Group (CECG)