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  • National Action Plan for Elephant Adoption

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    November 12, 2018
  • Meet Me in the Bai

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    May 22, 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
  • Male Elephants – More Social Than You Think

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    December 24, 2018
  • Long Distance Communication in Forest Elephants

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    December 10, 2018
  • Katy Payne on Elephants

    Elephants in the wild seem to coordinate their movements even when widely separated. Male elephants seem to be able to find females in estrous even over long distances.

    Bioacoustics researcher Katy Payne and her colleagues have found that elephants use low…

    April 17, 2017
  • 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