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News from the Field
Latest stories from the world of elephant conservation and the Elephant Protection Initiative


Lona Gore
Our Friend of the Month is Lona Gore, from South Sudan. Lona works for the Ministry of Wildlife Conservation and Tourism in Juba, where...

EPI Secretariat
Jul 13, 20222 min read


Moses Lesoloyia
Our Friend of the Month for June is Moses Lesoloyia, from northern Kenya. Moses is Project Manager for the Milgis Trust, working to...

EPI Secretariat
Jun 15, 20223 min read


Captain Cedric Mondon
Our friend of the month is Captain Cedric Mondon of Côte D’Ivoire. Cedric is Head of Wildlife Protection Services in the Ministry of...

EPI Secretariat
May 11, 20222 min read


Sam Shaba
Our EPI Friend of the Month for April is Sam Shaba, who works with Honeyguide, which promotes community conservation in Tanzania. Sam is...

EPI Secretariat
Apr 20, 20224 min read


Dr Susan Canney
Our EPI Friend of the Month for March is Dr Susan Canney, who is Director of the Mali Elephant Project, working to save one of Africa’s...

EPI Secretariat
Mar 22, 20222 min read


Jean Louis Kakoua
Our Friend of the Month for February is Jean Louis Kakoua, who is the Deputy Technical Director for Gabon’s national parks, as well as...

EPI Secretariat
Feb 24, 20222 min read


Emmanuel Olabode
Our Friend of the Month for January is Emmanuel Olabode, project coordinator for the Nigerian Conservation Foundation, leading on the...

EPI Secretariat
Jan 22, 20222 min read


Dr Ralph Chami
Our friend of the month for December is Dr Ralph Chami of the IMF, who has done pioneering work on the economic value of Forest...

EPI Secretariat
Dec 16, 20213 min read


Vivek Menon
Our friend of the month for November is Vivek Menon from India. Vivek is the founder and executive director of the Wildlife Trust of...

EPI Secretariat
Nov 16, 20213 min read


Andrew Crichton
Our Friend of the Month for October is another new member of the EPI Foundation team. Andrew Crichton, who is based in South Africa, has...

EPI Secretariat
Oct 27, 20213 min read


Hans Magaya
Our Friend of the Month for September is Hans Magaya, a new member of the EPI Foundation team. Hans, who is based in his home country...

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Sep 22, 20213 min read


Roger Fotso
Our Friend of the Month for August is Roger Fotso, who works for our partners WCS, as country director in his native Cameroon. Dear Roger...

EPI Secretariat
Aug 4, 20212 min read


Teckeste Kiflemariam
We’re excited that our July Friend of the Month comes from Eritrea, whose elephant population is one of the least known in Africa....

EPI Secretariat
Jul 7, 20212 min read


Donatus Gadiye
We’re delighted to introduce our Friend of the Month for June, Donatus Gadiye. Donatus is Elephant Monitoring Coordinator in Tanzania’s...

EPI Secretariat
Jun 9, 20212 min read


Grant Burden
We’re delighted to introduce our Friend of the Month for May, Grant Burden. Grant recently joined the EPI Foundation team as a Special...

EPI Secretariat
May 19, 20213 min read


Duclair Makaya
We’re delighted to include another new country for our Friend of the Month. Duclair Makaya is from the Republic of Congo, where he works...

EPI Secretariat
Apr 7, 20212 min read


Ulysse Sinagabé Korogone
We’re delighted to introduce a Friend of the Month from the Republic of Benin, which has West Africa’s largest remaining elephant...

EPI Secretariat
Mar 10, 20212 min read


Dr Akankwasah Barirega
Our Friend of the Month for February is Dr Akankwasah Barirega, who is head of Uganda’s Department of Wildlife Conservation and the EPI’s...

EPI Secretariat
Feb 10, 20212 min read


Miles Zidana
Our Friend of the Month for January is Miles Zidana, Head of Investigations in Malawi’s Department of National Parks and Wildlife (DNPW)....

EPI Secretariat
Jan 14, 20212 min read


Maureen Kinyanjui
Our friend of the month is Maureen Kinyanjui from Kenya, who works with our partner organisation, Save The Elephants, on the front line...

EPI Secretariat
Dec 2, 20203 min read
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