Newsletter

  • April 2016 – Hanging on in Africa

    More good news! Last year, the Lab recieved a very generous gift that the Lab Director decided to focus on ELP and two other programs in the BioAcoustics Research Program. This enabled us to bring a fantastic new post-doc into…

    April 9, 2016
  • December 2015 – Amazing Life

    In spite of the depredations inflicted on the world by our species, all of us are fortunate to live still in a world with amazing, fascinating, infinitely complex, and intrinsically beautiful organisms.

    December 20, 2015
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • January 2015 – New Year Wishes

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

    January 8, 2015
  • December 2014 – Wrapping an elephant year

    Andrea finally returned to Dzanga to an enthusiastic welcome from the locals

    December 6, 2014
  • 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
  • December 2013 – Rumbling in two voices

    A fascinating study showing that elephants can produce rumbles from their mouths and from their trunks

    December 10, 2013