Fewer than 1,850 wild Asian elephants remain in Myanmar. Habitat loss, conflicts with farmers, illegal capture, and poaching have caused Asian elephant populations to fall by more than 70 percent—a number that could dramatically increase throughout the next decade. We refused to sit idly by and let this beautiful creature disappear.
With our Nation behind us, Conservation Nation provided funding to Dr. Peter Leimgruber, head of the Conservation Ecology Center at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, to purchase GIS tracking collars that use satellites to monitor these elephants. The collars allow Dr. Leimgruber and his team to establish a real-time tracking system that helps mitigate human-elephant conflict, poaching, and illegal capture.
With your help, we are playing a key role in ending the threat of extinction for Asian elephants.
