Elephanttrust.org Website Review

The Amboseli Trust for Elephants aims to ensure the long-term conservation and welfare of Africa’s elephants in the context of human needs and pressures through scientific research, training, community outreach, public awareness and advocacy. Amboseli Trust for Elephants Team, Project History and Ecosystem Background. Films, books and scientific publications from the Amboseli Elephant Research Project. Thank you for showing an interest and concern for elephants by opening our website. The Amboseli Trust for Elephants’ aim is to learn everything we can about these intelligent, complex and often mysterious an*mals while at the same time as*uring that they have a I started the Amboseli Elephant Research Project along with my colleague Harvey Croze in 1972. We chose Amboseli because the elephants were relatively undisturbed in the sense that they were not fenced in, were still moving freely in the ecosystem, and were not being heavily poached. What we wanted was to gather base-line data on the biology of a “natural” population. Most important we wanted to study elephants by following individuals over time. More than 40 years later we are following some of the same individuals we met back in 1972 as well as all the Amboseli elephants that have been born since we started. Much of what we know today about wild African elephants is Join us to learn about these amazing elephants and to follow along with us as we watch their lives unfold. Using our 45 years of data, Pierre Mas*at from Mavtromatika designed a beautiful visualization showing the development of the Amboseli study population. Families have increased in size over time. The population as a whole has also grown, making Amboseli a unique model of a healthy population. Thanks to community support for elephants, Amboseli escaped the large scale poaching of the 1980s, 1990s. The current crisis has reduced elephant numbers by a third across the continent, and caused some populations to crash by 60%. In Amboseli, our