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Both African elephants & Asian elephants need help as more people encroach on their habitat & there's an increasing amount of conflict between humans & elephants, and there are some excellent examples of how charities & organisations are helping to find solutions to these problems, to identify what the animals need to survive & flourish, to understand their behaviour, and work with local communities to find out how they can live in harmony with their animal friends.
An excellent example of work being undertaken to tackle this battle for resource is the work that the US based Elephant Care International is doing in Sri Lanka, where the charity is working to help solve elephant-human conflict.
Elephants matter because their habitat is home to hundreds of animals and plants as well. If we can tackle the elephant’s problems – of which reduced living habitation and thus a reduced food supply is one - many other animals will be helped at the same time.
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Elephants and people are killing each other over a desperate battle for resources. Elephant Care International supports projects which addresses the resource needs of both people and elephants, thus creating win-win situations. For example, it helps create alternative income streams for people in villages which enable the elephants’ natural habitat to be protected and preserved.
The organisation is working with the Sri Lankan Wildlife Conservation Society to help five villages situated in an important elephant corridor. Rampaging elephants have caused loss of human life, crops and livelihoods. The villages have, of course, struck back, resulting in the loss of elephant life. |
The project provides alternative crops and also another source of income. These efforts will help encourage the villages to take a more tolerant view of the elephants. It will enable them to reduce the crops lost to these beautiful creatures and mean that they will have more of an opportunity – thanks to an increased income and food source – to care for them. It shows that people and animals can help each other.
Ways to help...
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Adopt a village in which Elephant Care International is doing this work, or get your company involved.
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Check out their wish list - is there something on it you could help with?
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If you have many air miles and no time to use them, why not donate your air miles to Elephant Care International? The staff have to travel many thousands of miles to do their work every year, and every mile and penny counts.
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