The greatest challenge to both forest elephants and savannah elephants today is illegal killing to feed the ivory trade. Between 2010 and 2012 alone, some 100,000 were poached across the continent. In some parts of Africa, habitat loss, fragmentation, and degradation are also threats, as is human­-elephant conflict.

Our Goal

A world where people and ecologically functioning populations of wild African elephants can co-exist and thrive across the elephants' range.

How will we get there?

We strive to stop the killing, stop the trafficking, and stop the demand. We do this by:

• Protecting elephants and their habitat.
• Reducing human-elephant conflict.
• Building capacity in range states.
• Conducting research on elephants to help inform conservation strategies.
• Promoting elephant-friendly policies.
• Monitoring elephant numbers, population trends, and threats to elephants and their habitat.