Elephants Alive

Elephants Alive’s mission is to ensure the survival of elephants and their habitats and to promote harmonious co-existence between man and elephants. Our vision is to • provide science-based information to secure the survival of elephants within intact ecosystems. • create awareness of the plight of elephants at a time when populations are being decimated across Africa. • capture hearts and minds through research, education, advocacy and partnership-building, locally & internationally. For 20 years, Elephants Alive has been monitoring the ecology and demography of one of southern Africa’s largest continuous elephant populations. We have developed an individual elephant identification database of >1500 elephants in the Greater Kruger Area (including the Association of Private Nature Reserves (APNR) and Kruger National Park), as well as monitoring movements of nearly 70 radio-collared elephants throughout the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park (South Africa, Mozambique and Zimbabwe). This research helps inform managers, conservation bodies and landowners on seasonal movement, sustainability of hunting, effects on vegetation where elephants and man co-exist – and worryingly now also identifying poaching hotspots, thus informing deployment of anti-poaching patrols.