Schutz von Lebensräumen für Elefanten
Through a five-year agreement with South African National Parks, IFAW committed
US$2.5 million to purchase habitat for elephants at Addo Elephant Park and Marakele National
Park.
While many elephant populations across Africa have
experienced dramatic declines, Addo’s elephant population has recovered from
near extinction.
There are now 356 elephants at Addo. At Marakele, the current elephant population numbers nearly 70, but the park will accommodate up to 250 elephants once expansion is complete.
In Kenya, staff members have worked with local communities to open the Eselenkei Conservation Area, an important wildlife site a few miles north of Amboseli National Park along the foothills of Mt. Kilimanjaro, to small groups of tourists.
This project, a collaboration among IFAW, Porini Ecotourism and the local Maasai community, offers visitors an opportunity to view elephants, lions, leopards, gazelles, zebras, giraffes, and many other animals in unspoiled habitat.
While elephant numbers have decreased in many areas, they have flourished in protected habitat so much that some African nations began to cull herds of healthy elephants.
In 1994, IFAW worked with South African authorities to successfully move entire elephant families -- 144 elephants in all -- from Kruger National Park to other parks where there was room to roam. This project showed that translocation is a viable solution to habitat constraints.
To address human encroachment into national parks in India, IFAW is helping the Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) identify and obtain key habitat to create wildlife corridors – land-based bridges between protected areas.
A critical tract of land connecting the Biligiri Rangaswami Temple Wildlife Sanctuary and the Ramapuram Forest Range in southern India was purchased so that Asian elephants and big cats can migrate in safety. These small corridors can be protected and monitored effectively and solve the problems of habitat fragmentation and genetic isolation.
In China, IFAW helped mark out ecological corridors and establish a protected area to enlarge the elephant ranges in the Simao region of Yunnan Province.
There are now 356 elephants at Addo. At Marakele, the current elephant population numbers nearly 70, but the park will accommodate up to 250 elephants once expansion is complete.
In Kenya, staff members have worked with local communities to open the Eselenkei Conservation Area, an important wildlife site a few miles north of Amboseli National Park along the foothills of Mt. Kilimanjaro, to small groups of tourists.
This project, a collaboration among IFAW, Porini Ecotourism and the local Maasai community, offers visitors an opportunity to view elephants, lions, leopards, gazelles, zebras, giraffes, and many other animals in unspoiled habitat.
While elephant numbers have decreased in many areas, they have flourished in protected habitat so much that some African nations began to cull herds of healthy elephants.
In 1994, IFAW worked with South African authorities to successfully move entire elephant families -- 144 elephants in all -- from Kruger National Park to other parks where there was room to roam. This project showed that translocation is a viable solution to habitat constraints.
To address human encroachment into national parks in India, IFAW is helping the Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) identify and obtain key habitat to create wildlife corridors – land-based bridges between protected areas.
A critical tract of land connecting the Biligiri Rangaswami Temple Wildlife Sanctuary and the Ramapuram Forest Range in southern India was purchased so that Asian elephants and big cats can migrate in safety. These small corridors can be protected and monitored effectively and solve the problems of habitat fragmentation and genetic isolation.
In China, IFAW helped mark out ecological corridors and establish a protected area to enlarge the elephant ranges in the Simao region of Yunnan Province.
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Foto © IFAW/ D. Willetts
