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Entries are invited for the Elephants Alive! Art Competition
Art-Eclect Studio in collaboration with The Art Square Studio Gallery at The Pumpkin House in Langebaan invite you to submit an artwork towards raising funds for a Collar Tracking Project in Hoedspruit. The exhibition will be hosted in Langebaan at Pumpkin House with an Opening Night on Friday 22nd September 2017, accompanied with wine tasting.…
Read MoreBees, Trees, Elephants and People – Success!
Elephants are considered to cause unacceptable levels of damage to certain large trees in some conservation areas. This damage exacerbates human: elephant conflict, with some calling for elephants to be culled to reduce tree damage. Elephants Alive have been studying the impact of elephants on large trees since 2004,and looking at mitigation methods which could…
Read MoreDung and Rumbles – a day in the life of an Elephants Alive researcher
By Harriet Nimmo Trying to stuff a large, steaming lump of elephant dung into a small glass test tube was not quite what I’d expected, when I spent a day in the field with the Elephants Alive research team. The dung samples are preserved in saline, and the tubes taken back to the UK for analysis…
Read MoreGuidelines for Safe Elephant Viewing
By Michelle Henley We are proud to announce that a new brochure has been produced to ensure that people know how to behave around elephants. Mac, the iconic bull who represents one of the large tuskers of Kruger and who has been tracked by Elephants Alive since early 2002 until his death in 2013 due…
Read MoreVulture-Tree Links
By Michelle Henley South Africa’s white-backed vultures are now Critically Endangered, and their numbers continue to plummet. The main cause of this rapid decline are indiscriminate poisonings, where the birds are drawn to poisoned baits, use of vulture body parts in traditional medicine, and deliberate targeting by poachers, as the presence of vultures can alert authorities to illegally…
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