Elephant Crisis Fund

Applying a complex-systems approach to address a conservation challenge results in improving multiple SDGs

Using a truly co-creative and locally adapted approach to community and stakeholder engagement and governance

“Elephant-centred” community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) as peace-building.

Building a network of partnerships and aligning interests around a common vision - Don’t go it alone.

Community resource governance in support of protected area and landscape planning (top-down/bottom-up synergy)

Mapping wildlife corridors linking Protected Areas using satellite tracking of elephants

Rapid Response Units as a short-term solution ensuring immediate physical and livelihood security

Human-Elephant Conflict mitigation through soft barriers protecting crop fields

Identifying and implementing alternative, income-generating elephant unpalatable crops as soft barriers to subsistence crops