Friends of World Elephant Day are the elephant conservation organizations that are part of World Elephant Day’s Associate program.
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Organizations are listed in alphabetical order.
A Rocha India is a conservation organization situated in Bannerghatta (Bangalore), India. A Rocha India is part of the International A Rocha organization, present in 19 countries across the world. A Rocha India has been working exclusively in the landscape of Bannerghatta National Park for the past 10 years on the ecology of the Asian Elephant and the mitigation of human-elephant conflict which is predominant in this area.
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The African Conservation Foundation works to preserve Africa’s wildlife by supporting, linking and conducting conservation projects throughout the continent. They provide technical support and training for savanna and forest elephant conservation projects in southern and west central Africa.
Founded in 1961, the African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) is a leading conservation organization focused solely on the African continent. AWF’s programs and conservation strategies are based on sound science and designed to protect both the wild lands and wildlife of Africa and ensure a more sustainable future for Africa’s people. Since its inception, AWF has protected endangered species and land, promoted conservation enterprises that benefit local African communities, and trained hundreds of African nationals in conservation—all to ensure the survival of Africa’s unparalleled wildlife heritage. AWF is a nonprofit organization headquartered in Kenya and registered as a 501(c)(3) in the United States. For more information, visit www.awf.org and follow us on Twitter @AWF_Official and Facebook at facebook.com/
The mission of the African Wildlife Trust is to identify and address wildlife and land conservation issues in Africa.
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Amboseli Trust for Elephants aims to ensure the long-term conservation and welfare of Africa’s elephants in the context of human needs and pressures through scientific research, training, community outreach, public awareness and advocacy.
Animal Law Reform South Africa envisages a society whose laws, courts and enforcement agencies advance the protection and well-being of humans and non-human animals.
Founded in 1998, the AEACP is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to saving the diminishing number of Asian Elephants left on our planet through our work with domesticated elephants to raise funds to improve the welfare of captive elephants and to help support the efforts of conservation organizations working to sustain and protect wild elephant populations.
We work tirelessly to ensure that all wild animals, whether living in captivity or in the wild, are treated with compassion and respect and are able to live their lives according to their needs.
As a leading wildlife charity, we oppose the exploitation of wild animals in captivity and campaign to keep them where they belong – in the wild.
We promote Compassionate Conservation to enhance the survival of threatened species in the wild and protect natural habitats while respecting the needs and safeguarding the welfare of individual animals.
We seek to have a positive impact on animals in the wild and protect their ecosystems in perpetuity, for their own intrinsic value and for the critical roles they play within the natural world.
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Born Free USA works to end the suffering of wild animals in captivity, rescue individual animals in need, protect wildlife — including highly endangered species — in their natural habitats, and encourage compassionate conservation globally. In addition, the Born Free USA Primate Sanctuary is home to more than 600 primates, many of whom were rescued from abusive situations in laboratories, roadside zoos, and private possession. Our mission is to “Keep Wildlife in the Wild.”
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Borneo Wildlife Preservation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization committed to promoting the survival of the endangered Bornean Pygmy Elephant. With less than 900 surviving we are determined to aid in conservation efforts in the Sabah region of Borneo. We provide funding for food for orphaned Pygmy Elephants, volunteer eco-tours, education, and reforestation of fragmented forests to assist in wildlife migration.
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BIAZA is the British and Irish Association of Zoos and Aquariums. BIAZA’s purpose is to bring together the best zoos and aquariums in Britain and Ireland to create a better future for the planet and its inhabitants. We drive excellence in animal welfare, conservation, education and research, demonstrate our members’ value to society, and use our collective expertise and voice to influence policy and champion positive behaviours.
BIAZA is dedicated to a future where elephants thrive both in the wild and in human care.
The mission of Bring the Elephant Home is to improve the chance of survival for elephants worldwide and to create a world where people and elephants can coexist in harmony. It is our strong belief that we only achieve this through an integrated approach that combines community participation, education, research, capacity building and practical conservation action.
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CEWS mission is to protect elephants from the international ivory trade (and all CITES protected fauna species), by formally monitoring the global e-commerce of elephant ivory in a professional manner, delivering accurate results. We share our reports to create awareness of the ivory problem with CITES member countries, global media, NGOs, and so on. Our reports are crucial educational tools supporting the pro-conservation elephant proposals, and raising awareness about the threatening anti conservation elephant proposals which arise at each CITES CoP. All of our reports are at the INTERPOL database.
Colossal is a breakthrough bioscience and genetic engineering company that builds radical new technologies to advance the field of genomics. Colossal creates disruptive technologies for extinct species restoration, critically endangered species protection and the repopulation of critical ecosystems that support the continuation of life on Earth. The company is the first to apply CRISPR technology for the purposes of species de-extinction, beginning with the woolly mammoth. Colossal is engaged in genetic research to preserve the endangered elephant lineage and eliminate EEHV.
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EDUCATION: To generate opportunities to provide education that expands awareness regarding the plight of elephants and other endangered species
SUSTAINABILITY: To work on projects, in cooperation, with other organizations that mitigate human/wildlife conflicts and anti-poaching/wildlife trafficking efforts.
LEGISLATION: When called upon, to assist in the support of legislation that will close the demand for endangered wildlife body parts, cruelty to animals and an end to the destruction of our planet’s environment, domestically and worldwide.
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The David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation is a small, effective charity funding key projects in Africa and Asia working to save critically endangered mammals in the wild. DSWF supports anti-poaching and conservation projects throughout Africa and Asia making a real difference to the survival of critically endangered mammals.
Dazzle Africa raises awareness and monies for conservation, education and community enhancement projects in the South Luangwa, Zambia. Dazzle Africa supports funding for Scouts to protect Wildlife, and Medical Personnel to treat wounded animals due to poaching.
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The Elephant Reintroduction Foundation is a charitable non-profit organization based in Thailand. Founded in 2002 as a Royal initiative of Her Majesty Queen Sirikit of Thailand, its mission is to reintroduce captive elephants into the wild. The foundation acquires, either through donation or purchase, captive elephants and reintroduces them to protected forest habitat to live as wild elephants. The Elephant Reintroduction Foundation was the co-founding organization for the inaugural World Elephant Day.
As pioneers in the use of professional intelligence and whistleblowing applied to environmental crime, Earth League International fights environmental/wildlife crime by merging the worlds of conservation, intelligence, investigation, crime analysis, technology, and media production.
The Ecoexist Trust is a Botswana registered NGO established in 2013. The overarching goal of Ecoexist is to create an enabling environment for policies and on-the-ground programs and incentives to reduce Human-Elephant Conflict and allow elephants and people to coexist. Moving from conflict to coexistence requires a number of focused, integrated management tools and strategies that provide short and long-term solutions.
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Elephanatics is an elephant advocacy organization located in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Our mission is to help the long-term survival of African and Asian elephants by raising awareness and disseminating information regarding the enormous challenges and suffering elephants face in Africa’s poaching crisis and in Asia’s tourist trade.
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Wildlife Alliance’s Elephant Alliance Campaign works to protect elephants in the wild, preserve vital elephant habitat and provide care for rescued Asian elephants. Our work with communities and governments ensures that elephants can roam freely without harm and our outreach efforts raise awareness on the plight of the Asian elephant.
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Elephant Aware was founded in 2009 and works to protect elephants in the Mara ecosystem through the following main components of the project; anti-poaching, human-elephant conflict mitigation, conservation education and community outreach. Since its foundation, Elephant Aware has had an amazing positive impact in heightening wildlife security and improving the lives of both people and elephants in this area.
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Elephant Connection aims to guide conservation planning and action for securing legally protected wildlife movement corridors through our scientific research of elephant landscape use, impediments to their movements and threats to their survival that restrict connectivity with cross-border elephant populations within the Kavango Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA TFCA).
The ultimate goal of the Elephant Conservation Center is to reintroduce captive elephants into the wild and raise public awareness. The center works to set standards for what ethical welfare can be, rescuing former logging elephants and giving them a new chance at life through an active breeding and socialization program. Based on scientific studies and conservation efforts the ECC works to increase the number of elephants in Laos and protect the habitats that they live in.
The Elephant Conservation Network is a community-linked conservation initiative that is seeking a sustainable solution to the problem of human-elephant conflict around the Salakpra Wildlife Sanctuary in west Thailand. Its ultimate aim is to secure the future of Salakpra’s elephants and their forest ecosystem for the sustained benefit of local people and wildlife.
Elephant Family exists to protect the endangered Asian elephant. The greatest wildlife story of our time is happening right now and Elephant Family is playing a vital part. As Asia’s jungles are chopped down, all the animals living within them are being wiped out. Elephant numbers have plummeted by 90 per cent in the last 100 years.
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The Elephant Listening Project is a nonprofit research venture using vocal activity to monitor forest elephants in Central Africa. With our acoustic recording methods, we capture forest elephant sounds in order to learn about their lives and the unique threats they face, and to directly aid in their conservation.
The Elephant Valley Project is a registered local NGO based in Mondulkiri, Cambodia founded in 2007 and is Cambodia’s first elephant sanctuary. EVP’s aim is to improve the health and welfare of the captive elephants in Mondulkiri Province, to conserve the natural habitat of wild elephants, and to support the local people who work with these magnificent creatures.
Income generated by the EVP is used to fund an elephant research and monitoring program, mobile veterinarian program, ranger teams, an indigenous community-based organisation assistance program, and of course the project itself – which provides an alternative approach to elephant care, rehabilitation and conservation
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VISION: To be a program locally and internationally known for the contribution to build a world free of physical and psychological abuse towards elephants. A world with stable wild populations of African and Asian elephants.
MISSION: Generate actions and interdisciplinary network groups to promote the welfare and conservation of the elephants.
VISION: By 2018, expand ELEPHANTOPIA’s successful local & global educational campaigns, community events & sponsorships including: continued sponsorship of orphaned elephant Kavala and Mukambi school & community development programs
We work to abolish the ivory trade, expand education & awareness partnering with volunteers. We focus on creating a harmonious coexistence for elephants & humans, endeavoring to move people to action with opportunities to alleviate poverty, building whole & sustainable communities in Africa.
MISSION: We SAVE ELEPHANTS and BUILD COMMUNITY
VALUES: As a fully volunteer run organization, we pride ourselves that every dollar donated directly impacts our projects in Zambia and local educational campaigns in the US.
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Elephants Alive is a research and conservation-based organisation that aims to create awareness of elephants and their survival at a time when populations are being decimated across Africa. Originally operating as Save the Elephants-South Africa, the project has tracked elephant movements across transboundary regions north, east and west of the Kruger National Park for over twelve years, whilst also incorporating other topics such as the impacts of elephants on their habitats.
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We focus on elephant welfare and support reputable field organizations in Africa and Asia; habitat conservation efforts; anti-poaching and anti-smuggling initiatives; serve as a media watch dog for elephants; as well as develop educational tools to raise awareness. We seek to protect endangered species around the world.
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The advancement of education and research for the benefits of the public in the conservation and protection and monitoring of the elephants in particular but not exclusively by monitoring the demographics, ecology, behaviour, diseases and movement of African Elephants.
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Elephants Without Borders (EWB) is a charitable organization, working throughout southern Africa, dedicated to conserving wildlife and natural resources; through innovative research, education, and information sharing with all people, we encourage mankind to live in harmony with wildlife and the natural world.
Our Mission: The protection and preservation of elephants and rhinos through poverty alleviation.
ElephantVoices mission is to inspire wonder in the intelligence, complexity and voices of elephants, and to secure a kinder future for them. Through research, conservation, advocacy and the sharing of knowledge their goals are to advance the study of elephant cognition, communication and social behavior, and to promote the scientifically sound and ethical management and care of elephants.
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Elevate Destinations is a philanthropic travel company that gives back to wildlife, communities and the environment. A pioneer of personalized, environmentally-friendly and socially-conscious itineraries for individuals, groups and families, and non-profits, Elevate Destinations creates unforgettable travel experiences around the world that have a positive impact.
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FZS is an international conservation organization based in Frankfurt in Germany. Founded by Prof. Bernhard Grzimek, FZS is active in biodiversity-rich areas in central and eastern Europe, in East Africa, in central South America, and south-east Asia, with a strong commitment to preserving wildlands and biological diversity in the last remaining wilderness areas on the planet.
Friends of the Elephant is committed to the protection of the African and Asian elephant.
Elephants are very special creatures, still threatened by ivory poachers, farmers and the tourist industry.
With financial support to concrete projects and giving information we help the elephant. With this support the elephant can live in his natural environment.
We support a number of local wildlife conservation projects, establishing anti-poaching measures in cooperation with local communities, protecting habitats and caring for injured elephants. We are working to achieve a complete shut-down of national ivory markets, a ban on all international ivory trade as well as the end of trophy hunting. Together with the international initiative Global March for Elephants and Rhinos (GMFER) we aim to stop poaching, and to choke demand for ivory once and for all (main focus Asia).
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Rhino & Elephant Defenders (RED) – Toronto is dedicated to raise awareness about the poaching crisis in Africa, and to work with our elected members of Parliament to convince the government to:
– ban the import of ALL ivory into Canada
– ban the import of trophies into Canada
– ban the domestic trade of elephant ivory within Canada
Protecting, rescuing and providing sanctuary for elephants worldwide. Global Sanctuary for Elephants exists to create vast safe spaces for captive elephants where they are able to heal physically and emotionally from the traumas of captivity. There are elephants around the world in need of sanctuary, but too few exist to be able to care for them all. Our pilot project is Elephant Sanctuary Brazil, the first and only elephant sanctuary in South America.
It is our mission at HERD (Hoedspruit Elephant Rehabilitation & Development) to care for and rehabilitate each orphaned elephant brought into our care and to ensure that they get to experience a second chance at life with a herd that will accept them without prejudice.
We are South Africa’s first dedicated elephant orphanage, located next to the stables of the Jabulani herd at Jabulani Safari in the Kapama Private Game Reserve. This positioning offers the baby elephants access to the adult elephants, giving them a greater support structure and promoting their emotional well-being.
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How Many Elephants is a design led campaign, raising awareness of the devastating impacts of the African Elephant ivory trade. It supports female rangers on the front line of wildlife conservation.Few people know 96 elephants are poached each day for their ivory. At this rate, the African Elephant in the wild could be extinct within a decade. The How Many Elephants public exhibition visualises the annual poaching data of 35,000 elephants. It’s highly impactful, fully scalable, non-gory and is gaining momentum quicker than a charging herd of elephants.
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Humane Society International and its partner organizations together constitute one of the world’s largest animal protection organizations. For nearly 20 years, HSI has been working for the protection of all animals through the use of science, advocacy, education and hands-on programs. Celebrating animals and confronting cruelty worldwide — on the Web at hsi.org.
Humane Society International/Canada is a leading force for animal protection, representing tens of thousands of members and constituents across the country. We are an effective voice for animals, working through education, investigation, litigation, legislation, advocacy and hands-on rescue.
HSI/Canada is proud to be a part of Humane Society International — one of the largest animal protection organizations in the world.
ISWMP works to create global animal welfare initiatives, as well as empower and unite individuals and groups that assist animals worldwide.
Our goal is to prevent animal suffering and cruelty through means of education, hands-on field work, fundraising, non-violent protest, legal action, and collaborative efforts with other organizations.
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The Ian Somerhalder Foundation aims to empower, educate and collaborate with people and projects to positively impact the planet and its creatures. They distribute funds and resources towards global conservation, green energy development/deployment and educational tools.
IFAW’s mission is to rescue and protect animals around the world.
We rescue individuals, safeguard populations, and preserve habitat.Founded in 1969, the International Fund for Animal Welfare saves individual animals, animal populations and habitats all over the world. With projects in more than 40 countries, IFAW provides hands-on assistance to animals in need, whether it’s dogs and cats, wildlife and livestock, or rescuing animals in the wake of disasters. We also advocate saving populations from cruelty and depletion, such as our campaign to end commercial whaling and seal hunts.
In Defense of Animals’ mission is to end animal exploitation, cruelty, and abuse by protecting and advocating for the rights, welfare, and habitats of animals, as well as to raise their status beyond mere property, commodities, or things.
Ivory For Elephants (IFE) leverages the power of media to inform people globally about the elephant crisis. Working with sponsors and media partners, our goal is to increase awareness and raise funds to support non-profit organizations which protect elephant and rhinoceros populations in Africa and Asia.
The Kerulos Center is dedicated to creating a world where animals live in dignity and freedom. We translate this vision of animal self-determination into everyday living by helping animals in need. Our work empowers people to change their lives for animals to make all places are sanctuary.
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A Non-Profit Foundation registered in Thailand working towards bringing as many elephants home to the forest as well as providing an alternative livelihood for the hilltribe communities and working to improve elephant welfare standards throughout Thailand.
The main objective of this project is to contribute to the conservation of forest elephants in Angola, improving existing knowledge about their taxonomic status, bio ecology, threats, and distribution in order to mitigate the Human-Elephant conflict.
• Identify the existence of forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis) in the Cuanza-Norte and Bengo regions;
• Identify the most critical geographic range used by elephants for conservation purposes;
• Analyse the leading causes of the Human-Elephant conflict in the region;
• Analyse the levels of local ecological knowledge and possible attitudes taken by hunters and citizens in relation to elephant conservation;
• The campaign for the placement of two GPS collars was carried out in 2020.
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We envisage an Africa where animals are respected and protected in the legal system. We wish to make animal law accessible and create a continent-wide network of interested persons and a platform for protection efforts to materialise into real change.
Living With Elephants Foundation is a registered non-profit organization devoted to providing rescued African elephants with a second chance and safe home in the wilderness of Botswana’s Okavango Delta. Currently under care are Jabu and Morula, two rescued elephants, saved from culling operations in which their families were destroyed. Doug and Sandi Groves have dedicated nearly 30 years to providing world-class care and refuge to these orphans. Jabu and Morula live their lives in expansive natural elephant habitat, which offers freedom for exploration, natural behaviour and wildlife interactions. Living With Elephants Foundation also educates the public about African Elephants in its care and the importance of conservation in general. We have registered charitable status in the USA.
Mahouts Elephant Foundation (MEF) is a non-profit organisation dedicated to improving and protecting the lives of Asian elephants. Our mission is to work toward a shift in attitude that facilitates the return of captive, working elephants to protected forest habitat. MEF is committed to forming community, educational and research partnerships in order to achieve this goal. MEF works on the ground to develop sustainable, welfare-focused tourist experiences in order to support the needs and livelihoods of the mahouts (traditional elephant keepers), their families and the local communities in coexistence with the needs of the elephants.
“Founded in 2011, Management and Ecology of Malaysian Elephants (MEME) is a collaborative effort between the Department of Wildlife and National Parks Malaysia (PERHILITAN) and University of Nottingham Malaysia to study Asian elephants. Our work includes research and collaboration with plantations to transform human elephant conflict to coexistence, non-invasive techniques for monitoring wild elephant populations, movement studies of elephants across natural and agricultural landscapes using GPS collaring, ecological functions of elephants in the forest and the impact of linear infrastructures on elephant movement. Our research findings are then utilized to develop conservation policies and to increase public awareness on the importance of conserving elephants
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Protects elephants in the greater Mara ecosystem as a keystone species for conservation.
Manages human-elephant conflicts by collaring and tracking elephant movement and other innovative approaches to eliminate the illegal killing of elephants in collaboration with partners, land owners, the local community and government.
Engages with local communities and other key stakeholders to participate in a variety of ways to inspire and advance conservation of all wildlife.
Working with others, strives to achieve best land use, including for livestock, throughout the greater Mara ecosystem resulting in sustainable economic benefit for its communities and the people of Kenya.
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March for Elephants (San Francisco) is a nascent and evolving group of grass roots activists coming together locally and reaching out globally to advocate on behalf of elephants. The focus of MFE is to engage in direct and peaceful action on behalf of Earth’s largest terrestrial herbivore now on the brink of extinction.
NABU (Nature And Biodiversity Conservation Union) focuses on the preservation of habitats and biodiversity, the promotion of sustainability in agriculture, forest management and water supply and distribution. We carry out and support conservation projects around the world, including anti-poaching efforts to protect elephants in Kenya’s Tsavo National Park and the Maasai Mara, and are active against ivory trade at CITES.
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OIPA International – International Organization for Animal Protection – is a confederation that embraces more than 200 animal associations all over the world. We are devoted to animal rights defence and we fight against any kind of animal cruelty and abuse (animal testing, factory farming, poaching and hunting, trafficking of wildlife/exotic/companion animals, killing of strays, fur and entertainment industry). OIPA is an NGO associated with the UN Department of Global Communications (DGC), the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and accredited at UN Environment Assembly and Programme (UNEA/UNEP).
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One More Generation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation of endangered species and our environment. Their goal is to ensure all endangered species survive at least One More Generation… and beyond.
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PAWS is dedicated to the protection of performing animals, to providing sanctuary to abused, abandoned and retired captive wildlife, to enforcing the best standards of care for all captive wildlife, to the preservation of wild species and their habitat and to promoting public education about captive wildlife issues.
Rainforest Trust is a nonprofit conservation organization focused on saving rainforest and endangered species in partnership with local conservation leaders and communities. Since its founding in 1988, Rainforest Trust has saved 8 million acres of rainforest and other tropical habitats and has 178 projects across 30 countries.
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To advocate for wildlife and defend threatened and endangered species, with a focus on rhinos and elephants subjected to captivity, poaching, loss of habitat, human/wildlife conflict, and trophy hunting.
Save Queenie Save Elephants has for many years networked on Facebook to help and save elephants worldwide by fostering the best for them through publicizing and coordinating actions and projects. We are advocacy and activism at its best. See our Facebook Page or Group. Save One Elephant Save All.
Time is running out for Asian elephants. Revered but exploited, after 55 million years this ancient species has been brought to the brink of total extinction. Save The Asian Elephants (STAE) exerts pressure on governments and the tourism industry and informs public opinion to end the cruel treatment of captive Asian elephants in tourism and temples and to halt the decline of the species.
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A NGO based in Germany, Save the Elephants of Africa was founded in 1989 to aid in the protection of Africa’s grey giants.
At Shannon Elizabeth Foundation, we believe that the greatest achievements in conservation derive from cooperation and collective support for common goals. By inspiring united action in championing wildlife and wild places, we are committed to strengthening and broadening our partnerships with like-minded global organizations.
Born from one family’s passion for Kenya and its wilderness, the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust is today the most successful orphan-elephant rescue and rehabilitation program in the world and one of the pioneering conservation organizations for wildlife and habitat protection in East Africa. The Sheldrick Wildlife Trust embraces all measures that compliment the conservation, preservation and protection of wildlife.
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STEP is a Tanzanian non-profit organization working in and around the Ruaha-Rungwa and Udzungwa-Selous ecosystems. We are dedicated to creating a peaceful future for elephants in southern Tanzania and beyond through: elephant protection;monitoring and research;enhancing human-elephant co-existence through community conservation projects to improve welfare of people living around boundaries of protected areas; and advocacy and education for elephants and against the ivory trade.
Space for Giants is working on the ground every day to provide a secure future for elephants, the places they live and the species that share their range. We provide frontline protection against poaching for African elephants in the wild; work to secure space for elephants; mitigate human-wildlife conflict; train conservationists; and raise international awareness of the threats facing elephants today.
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SLWCS is committed to developing a sustainable model for wildlife conservation in Sri Lanka. Our focus is on helping people, elephants and other wildlife co-exist peacefully. Our unique, award-winning conservation model involves a comprehensive strategy that brings people together to identify and solve human-elephant conflicts through scientific field research, applied conservation and sustainable economic development.
Stand Up 4 Elephants (SU4E) a small NGO based in Belgium but working full time in Nepal to help improve the lives of captive elephants.
MISSION:
To help as many elephants as possible to achieve good health, freedom and the happiness they truly deserve.
We use a progressive and ethically responsible approach to elephant eco-tourism as a platform to raise awareness and educate people, locally in Nepal, about elephant care and in particular, the plight of the Asian elephant.
Our aim is also to improve the living conditions of the mahouts (elephant drivers) who are among the poorest in the society. Sadly, much of their traditional knowledge of elephant care has been lost over time.
By working directly with the people in the community, we hope that we can contribute to a positive change; a future where elephants are not ridden, poached, overworked or abused.
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The Thai Elephant Conservation Center (TECC) cares for more than 50 elephants living in the forest outside of Chiang Mai. They welcome tourism to the Center in a non-commercial, relaxed atmosphere, however are primarily known for their conservation efforts and scientific studies. Advocates of conservation, TECC operates an Elephant Hospital onsite and have conducted significant research on elephant reproduction.
The Billy and Kani Fund Project partners The Kerulos Center with The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust to restore space, peace and security for Elephants and tribal communities. Through education, art, and programs, we collaborate with ongoing efforts to conserve indigenous human and wildlife cultures, promote innovative conservation strategies and cultural practices, and provide security for wildlife and for future generations.
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The Earth Organization is an independent, grass roots, international non-profit, conservation and environment organization, with new solutions, committed to the creative, responsible rehabilitation of Planet Earth and the plant and animal kingdoms.
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The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee is the nation’s largest natural habitat refuge designed specifically for Asian and African elephants retired from zoos and circuses. The Sanctuary provides a safe haven for these highly intelligent and social creatures, and educates the public about the crisis facing elephants in captivity as well as in the wild.
The aim of the Golden Triangle Asian Elephant Foundation is to set up a safe haven for abused elephants or those that cannot work. They also provide employment for good mahouts and allow them to continue working with elephants and help ensure the survival of Thailand’s wild herd.
The Green Guard Nature Organization was formed in 1994, primarily as an agency for wildlife conservation. Its stated objectives include wildlife rescue and rehabilitation, environment conservation, environment education & awareness generation, upliftment of forest dwellers, survey, census and documentation of biodiversity, scientific study and analysis, protection of natural habitats including wetlands, grasslands and woodlands and supplementing the efforts of the Forest department.
The Humane Society of the United States is the nation’s largest animal protection organization, rated most effective by our peers. For 60 years, we have celebrated the protection of all animals and confronted all forms of cruelty. We are the nation’s largest provider of hands-on services for animals, caring for more than 100,000 animals each year, and we prevent cruelty to millions more through our advocacy campaigns. Read more about our 60 years of transformational change for animals and people at humanesociety.org.
To understand and protect chimpanzees, other apes and their habitats, and to work towards creating an informed and compassionate multitude who will help create a better world for people, other animals and our shared environment.https://janegoodall.ca/
The Mali Elephant Project is an initiative of the Wild Foundation and the International Conservation Fund of Canada, that has been in existence since 2002, and is aimed at conserving this iconic elephant population that represents 12% of all West African elephants.
The mission of The Nature Conservancy is to conserve the lands and waters on which all life depends. Our vision is a world where the diversity of life thrives, and people act to conserve nature for its own sake and its ability to fulfill our needs and enrich our lives. In Africa, TNC works to conserve wildlife and wild places in ways that improve people’s lives, particularly those who live closest to nature.
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As the heart of the global wilderness community for over 40 years, The WILD Foundation protects wilderness while meeting the needs of human communities, working across cultures and boundaries by collaborating with local peoples, organizations, the private sector, and governments to create dynamic practical projects and communications initiatives.
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The mission of the Wildlife Connection is to simultaneously improve human livelihoods and promote the conservation of natural resources, particularly of elephants. We aim to do this by both reducing the costs and increasing the benefits to local people of living nearby elephants in the greater Ruaha ecosystem in Tanzania.
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To safeguard biodiversity and empower communities in the greater Tsavo ecosystem.
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Veterans Empowered to Protect African Wildlife provides meaningful employment to post-9/11 veterans, utilizing their expertise to train and support Tanzanian anti-poaching efforts and prevent the extermination of keystone African wildlife, and the disastrous economic and environmental impact it would have.
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Veterinarians International aims to enhance the health of humans, animals, and the environment globally through the use of sound veterinary care and expertise.
Voice for Asian Elephants Society’s mission is to end elephant slavery and protect the endangered Asian elephants that are being captured illegally from the wild. In fulfilling our mission, our team will educate the public about the brutality that capture elephants endure, employ strategic actions to rescue those held in captivity and operate sanctuaries where they can roam freely.
WildAid is the only nonprofit organization focused on reducing the demand for illegal wildlife products, with the strong and simple message: When the Buying Stops, the Killing Can Too. WildAid works with hundreds of Asian and Western political figures, celebrities and business leaders to dissuade people from purchasing endangered wildlife products. These public service messages and educational initiatives reach hundreds of millions of people per week in China alone through donated media space.
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WildlifeDirect is a Kenya and US registered charitable organization founded in 2004 by Dr. Richard Leakey with a US Board and Kenya Board. Our mission is changing hearts, minds and laws to ensure Africa’s critical species endure forever. WildlifeDirect is known for its successful flagship campaign, Hands Off Our Elephants, under the patronage of the First Lady of Kenya, Her Excellency Margaret Kenyatta.
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World Animal Protection, formerly known as the World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA), is active in more than 50 countries. From our offices around the world, we work with businesses, governments, local partners and animal welfare organizations to find practical ways to prevent animal suffering worldwide.
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To Support early-career Wildlife Conservationists by Empowering them to become Catalysts for Change and the Future Conservation leaders the World needs.
96 elephants are killed every day in Africa. You can stop it. Increasing demand for ivory is driving African forest elephants to extinction. People across the world are uniting with the Wildlife Conservation Society to protect them. Take action to save elephants now.
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