New ideas. New solutions.
A new future for elephants.
The world's elephant population has been in a dramatic decline for decades — driven by poachers, human-elephant conflict, and profiteers. We believe lasting change starts with a simple idea: you can't save elephants without also helping the people who share their world. The current deterrents aren't enough. Something new must be done to change the paradigm.
The Elephant Project has developed new ideas and new solutions to address the threats to elephant survival — because we can't build a future for elephants without also building one for the people who live alongside them.
Our strategy pairs immediate, on-the-ground protection with long-term, sustainable solutions: ending the market for ivory, easing human-elephant conflict, building humane economies for elephants still in captivity, and educating the next generation to choose coexistence over conflict.
The scale of the crisis
Field & conservation reportingThree forces are driving this decline.
Poaching
Killed for ivory in Africa and, increasingly, for their skin in Asia — making every Asian elephant a target regardless of tusks.
Human-Elephant Conflict
As habitat shrinks, elephants and communities compete for the same land — often with fatal consequences on both sides.
Captivity & Profiteering
Held for logging, tourism, cultural and religious use, and transport — an unnatural, often cruel life imposed for profit.
Protecting elephants starts with teaching people to see them differently.
Belle of Bagan
Our children's book follows an elephant who loses her home to deforestation — teaching kids that protecting elephants means protecting people too. We're now bringing it into schools, libraries and communities worldwide.
Meet Belle →The Linesman
Our 30-minute documentary follows one man's mission to end human-elephant conflict in rural Myanmar — now being expanded into a global educational resource.
Watch the film →The Global Elephant Classroom
A free digital platform that will bring elephant conservation into classrooms everywhere — films, lesson plans, conservationists and stories from the communities living this reality. It's one of six initiatives in our current campaign, and we need help to build it.
Help us launch it →