Conservation Projects

AZA requires support for field conservation work by its member facilities. The AZA and the International Elephant Foundation (IEF) have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding in support of elephant conservation projects of mutual interest that are identified by IEF and are consistent with the conservation goals of AZA.

Listed below are the IEF/AZA Elephant TAG/SSP action plan conservation projects for 2008:

Habitat Protection

• Kalama Community Wildlife Conservancy: Community Conservation of Elephants in Northern Kenya
  
  
• Prey Proseth Elephant Conservation Community - Cambodia
  
  

Anti-Poaching

• Enforcement of Poaching Control and Bushmeat Trade In and Around WAZA National Park - Cameroon
  
  
• Lake George Marine Ranger Station: The Waterways Project - Uganda
  
  

Reduction of Human-Elephant Conflict

• Movement, Population Distribution and Social Dynamics of African Elephants in Kunene and Omusati Region of Namibia
  
  
• Support for the Core Activities of Save the Elephants
  
  
• Mahouts and their Elephants Working as Conservation Response Units in Sumatra
  
  
• Saving Elephants by Helping People - Sri Lanka
  
  
• Building Capacities for Mitigating HEC in Buxa-Jaldapara Landscape, Northern West Bengal - India
  
  

Ecotourism/Environmental Education

• Children and Elephants of Boromo Region - Burkina Faso
  
  
• Direct Action Education: Cambodian Wild Elephant Conservation
  Materials - Cambodia
  
  
• Support for GAJAH the Publication of the IUCN/SSC Asian Elephant Specialist Group (AsESG)
  
  

Veterinary Medicine

• Lao Elephant Care & Management Program - Laos
  
  
• Ultrasonographic and Endocrinological Characterization of Luteogenesis in Pregnant and Non-Pregnant Asian Elephants
  
  
• Study to Reduce Elephant Deaths Caused by Endotheliotropic Elephant Herpes Virus (EEHV)

For more details on IEF/AZA projects, please contact:

Deborah Olson
Executive Director
International Elephant Foundation
dolson@elephantconservation.org