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Protecting the African Elephants from Extinction
Help us protect elephants from poaching, human elephant conflict and becoming extinct
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Project Summary
Project Challenge
Project Solution
Impact
Reports
Project Summary
This project aims to provide protection and rehabilitation to elephants in Africa. Our African elephants are in a critical situation and with people becoming increasingly desperate due to job loss, the interest in poaching has increased tenfold, putting them at risk for the ivory trade. Climate change is also no help for these elephants as their habitats become unfavourable. Awareness and monitoring are the key steps we are taking to combat these issues.
Project Challenge
Elephants are known as tourism magnets but they are also essential and a key species in maintaining biodiversity in our ecosystem. Our project works to bring education, awareness and protection to these animals across Africa. Help us Protect and Preserve these Elephants
In 10 years more than 50% of our African elephant population will be gone… Due to a number of reasons theses animals are becoming increasingly threatened and we need your help to protect them. Climate change, unsustainable tourism and increased human activity are all major contributors to the reason why our African elephants are endangered. Without protection from tourism trade and no safe space to live out their days we cannot efficiently help them
Project Solution
This project aims to create awareness through outreach programs as well as engaging the surrounding community to become active members in protecting their local elephants. We hope by doing this as well as promoting sustainable tourism we can have an effect on peoples way of thinking and spread awareness around the poaching issue. We also provide protection, monitoring and rehabilitation to those that have been injured to ensure these animals have the best chance of survival in the wild.
Impact
By creating awareness we hope to make this project sustainable through the participation of the community as well as the education around responsible tourism, this will ensure the elephants will continue to protect for years to come. Monitoring and researching the population that is still in the wild we can track changes and trends also making us more efficient in their conservation
Reports
Project Report | Feb 26, 2026
Coexistence: The New Frontier in Elephant Protect
By Daniel | Ranger Leader
Dear Friends and Supporters,
When we think of protecting elephants, we often picture rangers on patrol. While anti-poaching remains a vital part of our work, our most recent field visits have highlighted a different, equally urgent challenge: Human-Elephant Conflict (HWC).
As habitats shrink and climate change alters traditional migration paths, elephants are increasingly wandering into human settlements in search of food and water. This is where the danger peaks—not just for the crops and livelihoods of local families, but for the elephants themselves.
Turning Conflict into CoexistenceOver the last three months, your support has helped us move beyond reactive protection toward proactive solutions. Here is how your donations are working on the ground:
Rapid Response Teams: We have supported local partners in strengthening their ability to respond to HWC reports. The goal is to reach affected areas within 48 hours to safely herd elephants back to protected lands, preventing “retaliation” incidents that often lead to elephant fatalities.
The Power of Awareness: We’ve facilitated community meetings and radio broadcasts to educate local residents on elephant behavior. By sharing the value that these “landscape engineers” bring to the ecosystem (and the local economy through responsible tourism), we are turning former “enemies” of the elephant into their most fierce protectors.
Support for Orphan Care: For those tragic moments when a mother is lost to poaching or conflict, your funds continue to support specialist care and nutrition for rescued calves. Seeing a young elephant thrive and begin to show natural herd instincts—like forming a “protective wall” around younger calves—is a powerful reminder of why we do this.
This year has seen some of the harshest dry conditions in recent memory. When water is scarce, the tension between humans and wildlife rises. Your contributions this quarter have been critical in providing the resources needed to monitor herds day and night, ensuring they stay within safe corridors and have access to the water they need without entering villages.
The Impact of Your GiftYour donations aren’t just “funding a project”—they are keeping a matriarch alive to lead her herd, ensuring a calf gets the milk it needs to grow strong, and giving a local farmer the tools to protect his farm without harming the animals.
$30 still funds a local anti-poaching staff member for a full 24-hour shift.
$100 covers the emergency cost for a vet to visit an injured elephant in the field.
We have a long way to go to ensure the African elephant population stabilizes, but because of you, we are moving in the right direction—one community at a time.
With deep gratitude,
The Action Change Team
This project aims to provide protection and rehabilitation to elephants in Africa. Our African elephants are in a critical situation and with people becoming increasingly desperate due to job loss, the interest in poaching has increased tenfold, putting them at risk for the ivory trade. Climate change is also no help for these elephants as their habitats become unfavourable. Awareness and monitoring are the key steps we are taking to combat these issues.
Elephants are known as tourism magnets but they are also essential and a key species in maintaining biodiversity in our ecosystem. Our project works to bring education, awareness and protection to these animals across Africa. Help us Protect and Preserve these Elephants
In 10 years more than 50% of our African elephant population will be gone… Due to a number of reasons theses animals are becoming increasingly threatened and we need your help to protect them. Climate change, unsustainable tourism and increased human activity are all major contributors to the reason why our African elephants are endangered. Without protection from tourism trade and no safe space to live out their days we cannot efficiently help them
This project aims to create awareness through outreach programs as well as engaging the surrounding community to become active members in protecting their local elephants. We hope by doing this as well as promoting sustainable tourism we can have an effect on peoples way of thinking and spread awareness around the poaching issue. We also provide protection, monitoring and rehabilitation to those that have been injured to ensure these animals have the best chance of survival in the wild.
By creating awareness we hope to make this project sustainable through the participation of the community as well as the education around responsible tourism, this will ensure the elephants will continue to protect for years to come. Monitoring and researching the population that is still in the wild we can track changes and trends also making us more efficient in their conservation
Project Report | Feb 26, 2026
Coexistence: The New Frontier in Elephant Protect
By Daniel | Ranger Leader
Dear Friends and Supporters,
When we think of protecting elephants, we often picture rangers on patrol. While anti-poaching remains a vital part of our work, our most recent field visits have highlighted a different, equally urgent challenge: Human-Elephant Conflict (HWC).
As habitats shrink and climate change alters traditional migration paths, elephants are increasingly wandering into human settlements in search of food and water. This is where the danger peaks—not just for the crops and livelihoods of local families, but for the elephants themselves.
Turning Conflict into CoexistenceOver the last three months, your support has helped us move beyond reactive protection toward proactive solutions. Here is how your donations are working on the ground:
Rapid Response Teams: We have supported local partners in strengthening their ability to respond to HWC reports. The goal is to reach affected areas within 48 hours to safely herd elephants back to protected lands, preventing “retaliation” incidents that often lead to elephant fatalities.
The Power of Awareness: We’ve facilitated community meetings and radio broadcasts to educate local residents on elephant behavior. By sharing the value that these “landscape engineers” bring to the ecosystem (and the local economy through responsible tourism), we are turning former “enemies” of the elephant into their most fierce protectors.
Support for Orphan Care: For those tragic moments when a mother is lost to poaching or conflict, your funds continue to support specialist care and nutrition for rescued calves. Seeing a young elephant thrive and begin to show natural herd instincts—like forming a “protective wall” around younger calves—is a powerful reminder of why we do this.
This year has seen some of the harshest dry conditions in recent memory. When water is scarce, the tension between humans and wildlife rises. Your contributions this quarter have been critical in providing the resources needed to monitor herds day and night, ensuring they stay within safe corridors and have access to the water they need without entering villages.
The Impact of Your GiftYour donations aren’t just “funding a project”—they are keeping a matriarch alive to lead her herd, ensuring a calf gets the milk it needs to grow strong, and giving a local farmer the tools to protect his farm without harming the animals.
$30 still funds a local anti-poaching staff member for a full 24-hour shift.
$100 covers the emergency cost for a vet to visit an injured elephant in the field.
We have a long way to go to ensure the African elephant population stabilizes, but because of you, we are moving in the right direction—one community at a time.
With deep gratitude,
The Action Change Team
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