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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • December 2016 – New Experiences in Congo

    Peter and Daniela were surprised by a gorilla as they trecked through the forest in Congo on a recent mission to put up new recording units. They also spent a week at Dzanga Bai in Central African Republic, with Andrea….

    December 10, 2016
  • 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
  • April 2017 – Optimism and Vulnerability

    I write to all of you this time with particularly conflicted emotions. China is actually meeting some of its stated goals to eliminate nearly all of its domestic ivory trade

    April 8, 2017
  • August 2017 – Andrea’s Story

    No one knows Africa’s forest elephants better than Andrea Turkalo. But poachers and a corrupt state forced the researcher to say goodbye to her beloved animals.

    August 8, 2017
  • 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