Amboseli Trust for Elephants

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Cynthia Moss, Director and Founder "started the Amboseli Elephant Research Project along with my colleague Harvey Croze in 1972." [1]

"ATE, the Amboseli Trust for Elephants, is a not-for-profit trust registered in Kenya and the USA (501c3). ATE’s operational focus is in Amboseli National Park and the surrounding ecosystem; its influence reaches out to elephant conservation, management and policy-setting worldwide.

"ATE has an administrative, fund-raising and advocacy office in the United States, a program management office in Nairobi, and a field research office and camp in Amboseli national park. The Nairobi office provides a base for administration, project support and field support.

"AERP, the Amboseli Elephant Research Project is the Trust’s research arm. Since 1972 AERP has studied the Amboseli elephants, making it today one of the longest studied populations of free living large mammals in the world. AECT, the African Elephant Conservation Trust, is an endowment fund established in the USA." [2]

Contact

Web: https://www.elephanttrust.org

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References

  1. Home, Amboseli Trust for Elephants, accessed January 27, 2015.
  2. About, Amboseli Trust for Elephants, accessed January 27, 2015.