Newsletter

  • October 2015 – Catching up with elephants and ELP

    Some good news! A 7-yr young conservationist, Calib (pictured here), raised money for ELP, encouraing donations by offering his hand-made origami elephants as a thank-you gift; Andrea’s seeing plenty of elephants in Dzanga Bai (although nearby logging is a threat);…

    October 8, 2015
  • November 2017 – Sending the Wrong Signals

    This is a sad day for elephants. Trump has announced a decision to overturn an Obama-era restriction on elephant trophy imports from Zambia and Zimbabwe.

    November 8, 2017
  • May 2018 – Starry nights and the Sounds of a forest

    ELP’s stellar team, Julie Samy and Ana Verahrami, are settling in to life working in Central Africa where they are working hard to resume the identification of individual forest elephants and record the births (and deaths) at Dzanga Bai following…

    May 8, 2018
  • May 2016 – In Praise of Mothers

    Aida kept her family together for years – reassuring and helping her daughters when they gave birth to their first offspring

    May 8, 2016
  • March 2015 – Renewal at Dzanga

    With five months behind her, Andrea has managed to get her camp functional again. It continues to be a struggle, and tragically, logging has started nearby. But the elephants are well for now and Andrea’s seen 20 new infants. See…

    March 7, 2015
  • June 2014 – Diving elephants

    We had two fantastic students from a local high school working with us all year as part of their study program. They investigated how elephant activity varied seasonally at a river where the elephants dive for minerals! Out of the…

    June 10, 2014
  • January 2015 – New Year Wishes

    Celebrate Andrea’s return to Dzanga and increasing commitments around the world to helping Forest Elephants

    January 8, 2015
  • February 2017 – China’s Promise

    In a time of global uncertainty and increased tension, elephants have just been given their best chance of survival since the start of Africa’s exploitation centuries ago.

    February 8, 2017
  • February 2015 – Valentine at three

    Valentine was born on February 15 2012 (in the thermal image he was only 9 hours old, in the larger image nearly 2 yrs old), and has thankfully come through the chaos of the last two years that has swept…

    February 14, 2015