Elephants Alive

ELEPHANTS ALIVE

Elephants Alive has been studying and researching African elephant populations in the vicinity of the Kruger National Park, South Africa since 2003, and delivers research solutions, advocacy and education to promote harmonious coexistence between elephants and people.

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Jamma wholeheartedly supports this committed non-profit organisation in its goal to develop and grow our understanding of elephant ecology. Their important research contributes towards the long-term survival of the African elephant and thereby helping to maintain the biodiversity of large parts of rural Africa.


Drawing on significant data gathered for two decades, Elephants Alive deliver research solutions that enable a greater understanding of the complex relationships that elephants have with each other and their surroundings, including the people with whom they share their world.

Promoting greater understanding and harmonious co-existence with nature’s giants.

Elephants Alive’s extensive long-term elephant tracking datasets provide information on landscape use, habitat expansion and perceived and real threats to elephants. Since 1998, Elephants Alive have deployed 90 GPS collars in 135 collaring operations, allowing the team to study and track individually identified elephants, monitor population dynamics and understand the motivation behind elephant movements from core conservation areas such as the Kruger National Park into protected areas along its borders.

Elephants Alive strives to put the science on the table in order to better protect elephants and ensure their survival by creating awareness and informing decision makers.

Jamma intend to support Elephants Alive on a long term basis in their mission to study the impact of human-elephant-conflict and develop successful mitigation strategies to foster positive human-elephant interactions.

In some areas human-elephant-conflict has arisen where elephant populations are either damaging infrastructure by fence breakages, threatening human security or are found to impact on iconic large tree species which are considered of ecological and aesthetic importance to reserve managers, tourists and landowners. Elephants Alive are testing eight different mitigation strategies to increase the survival rates of large trees, including using beehives as a deterrent.

“Protecting certain landscape features and ensuring human security will foster positive human-elephant interactions.” Elephants Alive

“Our research which is more than twenty years in the making, is aimed at improving our knowledge of the ecological processes that propagate the coexistence of elephants, their habitat and people.”
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