Newsletter

  • February 2013 – Living with sound

    ELP’s founder, Katy Payne reflects in a beautiful essay on how sound has threaded her life, from music to whales to elephants.

    February 10, 2013
  • December 2018 – Happenings in elephant land

    Perhaps our biggest challenge, but also incredibly exciting, is the 1250 sq km grid of acoustic units in the southern part of Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park, located in the Republic of Congo.

    December 8, 2018
  • December 2017 – Passing the Baton

    A distant roar echoes through the dim rainforest as I scramble along an ancient elephant path. Ahead was the reason I swapped my comfortable office at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology for a basic camp without electricity and running water…

    December 8, 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • December 2014 – Wrapping an elephant year

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

    December 6, 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
  • 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
  • August 2013 – A summer of elephants

    ELP was busy this summer: Peter went to Cameroon to set up recorders, Andrea worked with Peter on her data from Dzanga while monitoring the situation in C.A.R., and we had two high-school volunteers Maya and Jonathan (pictured here) who…

    August 10, 2013