In remote and war-torn parts of Central Africa, poverty and conflict often override concerns about the environment and conservation. However, success stories like those from Chinko in the Central African Republic show that attitudes to wildlife are changing. There were believed to be as many as 50,000 elephants in and around Chinko in the 1970s … Continued
ECF funding has supported the development of finely-tuned television and cinema campaigns in China by stars like Yao Ming, Jackie Chan, David Beckham, Prince William, and Li Bingbing that encourage people to stop buying illegal wildlife parts and products. These media campaigns, implemented by ECF partner WildAid, have gained widespread publicity and are shifting public … Continued
A sniffer dog unit designed to interdict the high level of illegal trafficking from Zambia into Malawi and Mozambique was established in the Lower Zambezi National Park. The ECF provided supplemental funding to a grant from USAID. The unit has now completed intense training with the dogs, and in April this year, had its first … Continued
The forests of NouabaleΜ-Ndoki Park in the Republic of Congo are an important refuge for forest elephants. Funding from the ECF helped the Wildlife Conservation Society establish an elite rapid-response mobile ranger unit, informant and intelligence networks, and a law enforcement advisor. Fifty-seven eco-guards were trained and evaluated and between May and June of 2016, … Continued
Following an incident in October 2015, which resulted in the death of four rangers, the helicopter based in Garamba National Park was damaged by machine gun fire and grounded. The ECF provided a supplementary grant which covered emergency repairs and rental of a new helicopter so that African Parks Network could hold the line. The … Continued
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In rural Africa, communities rely heavily on natural resources such as firewood, water and medicinal plants, and it is often women that are responsible for collecting these. Women are therefore disproportionately affected by human-elephant conflict, but are often not included in
conservation initiatives. Find out how an ECF funded project in Tanzania is tackling this by bringing women to the frontline of conservation.
The first half of 2022 has brought a mixture of good and bad news for elephants in Africa. Poaching levels remain low across most of Africa, but there are some places where it endures and it seems that ivory trafficking may be picking up again. Meanwhile the threat from human-elephant conflict continues to escalate.
Communities living alongside the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania are breathing a collective sigh of relief after the installation of elephant-proof grain stores. Farmers traditionally store grain in huts made from mud and sticks, however, these are no match for elephants in search of food. To solve this problem, the ECF has supported Frankfurt Zoological Society to install βelephant safeβ grain stores, made of bricks and cement and each able to hold up to two tonnes of dried grains.