As 2024 wraps up, we want to remind you of some of the incredible work that your support has enabled for elephants and all wildlife!

The Mount Kenya Horse Patrol Team (HPT) conducted over 148 patrols covering nearly 3000 kilometers in the first 6 months of the year!

In that same time, HPT members found and removed 81 snares, which protects countless wildlife from loss of limb or life.

They provided aid to injured wildlife like this water buck.

HPT members even served as firefighters to protect the vital habitat of this majestic UNESCO World Heritage Site.

These accomplishments are the tip of the iceberg! Your support of IEF makes protecting wild things in wild places possible. Right now, through the end of the year, you can DOUBLE YOUR IMPACT FOR ELEPHANTS! A generous donor has offered to match donations, dollar for dollar, up to $50,000. Won’t you please help us continue this great work?

At the headquarters, Frances Hannah and Donovan Rule, CLZ’s project and grants managers welcomed us with a pre-dinner, flat-bottomed motor boat ride on the Zambezi River. Motoring swiftly along the water we saw herds of grazing impalas, wild elephants taking afternoon strolls along the bank as well as eating grass on the many Zambezi River islands, lurking crocodiles hunkered down on the banks ready to snatch whatever might come their way, and hundreds of hippo heads staring from the water at us interlopers.

I kept remembering Disneyland’s Jungle Cruise narrator using the script that assured us hippos are only dangerous when they wiggle their ears. All the hippos we passed were wiggling their ears… Continue reading