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AWF elephant research Alfred Kikoti and his team carefully fit a GPS collar on an elephant to study its movements in West Kilimanjaro.
September 17, 2007
Related Wildlife: Elephant
AWF Solutions: Kilimanjaro Elephant Research and Conservation Project
Heartlands: Kilimanjaro |
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The elephant's trunk is an extraordinary appendage and serves as a nose, hand, extra foot, signaling device and tool for gathering food, siphoning water, dusting, and digging.
November 2, 2002
Related Wildlife: Elephant
Heartlands: Limpopo |
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Once back on its feet, the elephant curiously examined its new satellite collar, but did not seem bothered by it. The collar will relay data to AWF researchers who can then design conservation measures.
September 17, 2007
Related Wildlife: Elephant
AWF Solutions: Kilimanjaro Elephant Research and Conservation Project
Heartlands: Kilimanjaro |
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The West Kilimanjaro region of northern Tanzania is home to more than 600 elephants.
November 4, 2002
Related Wildlife: Elephant
AWF Solutions: Kilimanjaro Elephant Research and Conservation Project
Heartlands: Kilimanjaro |
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Elephants consume about 5% of their body weight and drink 30-50 gallons of water per day. Young elephants must learn how to draw water up their trunks and pour it into their mouths.
October 27, 2006
Related Wildlife: Elephant
AWF Solutions: Elephant Conservation in Zambezi, Fish Research & Monitoring, Fishing for the Future, Strengthening Lower Zambezi National Park
Heartlands: Zambezi |
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The African elephant is the largest living land mammal, one of the most impressive animals on earth. Despite their massive size, elephants are adept swimmers.
October 27, 2006
Related Wildlife: Elephant
Heartlands: Zambezi |
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Despite the recovery of some elephant populations after the ivory-ban in 1989, the total number of elephants across the continent is actually half what it was estimated to have been 40 years ago.
October 27, 2006
Related Wildlife: Elephant
AWF Solutions: Elephant Conservation in Zambezi, Securing the Kitenden Wildlife Corridor, The Ivory Project
Heartlands: Kilimanjaro |
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Elephants are fascinated by the remains of their dead. They will often examine the remaining bones and tusks.
October 30, 2006
Related Wildlife: Elephant
Heartlands: Samburu |
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AWF maps elephant movement patterns as they travel from Kenya's Amboseli National Park to Tanzania's West Kilimanjaro region.
October 27, 2006
Related Wildlife: Elephant
AWF Solutions: Kilimanjaro Elephant Research and Conservation Project
Heartlands: Kilimanjaro |
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Elephants feed in the wetlands of Amboseli National Park.
October 27, 2006
Related Wildlife: Elephant
AWF Solutions: Community Benefits from a Campsite
Heartlands: Kilimanjaro |
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Elephants pass through the baobab tree-studded landscape of Tarangire National Park in northern Tanzania.
October 27, 2006
Related Wildlife: Elephant
AWF Solutions: Manyara Ranch: Piecing Together Land in Tanzania, Supporting Tanzania's National Parks
Heartlands: Maasai Steppe |
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The elephant's survival was not an issue just 40 years ago. Today however, they are often constricted to reserves due to pressure from poachers and human encroachment on their habitats.
October 27, 2006
Related Wildlife: Elephant
Heartlands: Kilimanjaro |
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AWF aims to enable elephants to range freely in their natural habitats and reduce conflicts between elephants and local people.
October 27, 2006
Related Wildlife: Elephant
AWF Solutions: Elephant Conservation in Zambezi
Heartlands: Zambezi |
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Rampant poaching for ivory in the 1980s provoked a global outcry that led to listing the African elephant as endangered, and to a worldwide ivory ban. Photo by James Weis/eyesonafrica.net
January 26, 2004
Related Wildlife: Elephant
AWF Solutions: The Ivory Project |
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Young elephants touch each other in greeting. Photo by Daryl & Sharna Balfour
November 15, 2006
Related Wildlife: Elephant
AWF Solutions: Elephant Conservation in Zambezi, Securing the Kitenden Wildlife Corridor, The Ivory Project
Heartlands: Kilimanjaro, Limpopo, Maasai Steppe, Zambezi |
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Like their cousins on the savannahs, the African elephants, these forest elephants wallow in mud pits to cool down.
June 4, 2004
Related Wildlife: Elephant
Heartlands: Congo |
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The abundance of elephants competing with rhinos for food led AWF and others to relocate 255 elephants out of Ngulia. Now the rhinos face less competition. Photo © Mark Boulton/ICCE.
July 23, 2007
Related Wildlife: Elephant, Rhinoceros
AWF Solutions: Giving Rhinos a Safe Home |
