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    It’s Time to Move Beyond Ivory
    • May 27
    • 3 min

    It’s Time to Move Beyond Ivory

    The Elephant Protection Initiative Foundation (EPIF) believes that a resumption of legal international trade in elephant ivory, as...
    Saving Elephants By Securing Ivory Stocks
    • May 24
    • 2 min

    Saving Elephants By Securing Ivory Stocks

    The EPI Foundation is training officials across Africa to manage their ivory stockpiles and prevent leakages onto the illegal market. The...
    EPI’s Greta Iori Joins Specialist Group on Wildlife Conflict
    • May 8
    • 2 min

    EPI’s Greta Iori Joins Specialist Group on Wildlife Conflict

    The EPI Foundation is delighted to announce that our Director of Programme Development, Greta Iori, has been invited to become a member...
    Saving Our Planet’s Biodiversity
    • Apr 12
    • 2 min

    Saving Our Planet’s Biodiversity

    We live to fight another day. Recent negotiations in Geneva, intended to facilitate progress at the UN Biodiversity Summit due to take...
    EPI Foundation Celebrates UNEP at 50
    • Mar 2
    • 2 min

    EPI Foundation Celebrates UNEP at 50

    The Elephant Protection Initiative (EPI) Foundation offers its warm congratulations to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) on...
    Watch the EPIF's Special Event on Africa’s Critically Endangered Forest Elephants
    • Jan 7
    • 1 min

    Watch the EPIF's Special Event on Africa’s Critically Endangered Forest Elephants

    On the 26th of January 2022, the EPI Foundation hosted an exclusive film from Nigeria's Omo Forest Reserve, followed by a high-level...
    The Training of the Trainers
    • Jan 7
    • 1 min

    The Training of the Trainers

    The EPI Foundation was delighted to support the Ethiopian Wildlife Conservation Authority (EWCA) in holding a "Training of the Trainers"...
    The Omicron Opportunity
    • Dec 14, 2021
    • 2 min

    The Omicron Opportunity

    The emergence of the Omicron variant is further bad news for Africa, and for African conservation, after two very difficult years of the...
    Reducing Human-Elephant Conflict; the EPI Foundation unveils a strategy for harmonious coexistence
    • Sep 10, 2021
    • 2 min

    Reducing Human-Elephant Conflict; the EPI Foundation unveils a strategy for harmonious coexistence

    The EPI Foundation today announces a new strategy to address human-elephant conflict (HEC), which is fast emerging as the greatest threat...
    Watch the EPIF's Special Event on Africa’s Human-Wildlife Crisis
    • Sep 1, 2021
    • 1 min

    Watch the EPIF's Special Event on Africa’s Human-Wildlife Crisis

    On the 21st of September 2021, the EPI Foundation hosted a short film on the urgent situation in the Babile Elephant Sanctuary, Ethiopia,...
    New Chinese partners for the EPI
    • Aug 12, 2021
    • 2 min

    New Chinese partners for the EPI

    On this World Elephant Day the Elephant Protection Initiative (EPI) Foundation and the China Biodiversity Conservation and Green...
    EPIF urges UN Summit to show greater ambition on Human-Wildlife Conflict
    • Jul 8, 2021
    • 1 min

    EPIF urges UN Summit to show greater ambition on Human-Wildlife Conflict

    The Elephant Protection Initiative (EPI) Foundation has urged attendees to the forthcoming UN Biodiversity Summit (known as CBD CoP15),...
    The EPIF's 'Gold Standards' programme unveils new ‘Gold Standard App’
    • Jul 5, 2021
    • 1 min

    The EPIF's 'Gold Standards' programme unveils new ‘Gold Standard App’

    The EPI Foundation develops a ‘Gold Standard App’ to help wildlife officials with the secure management of ivory and other wildlife...
    People and elephants: the competition for land in Tanzania’s highlands
    • Jun 15, 2021
    • 2 min

    People and elephants: the competition for land in Tanzania’s highlands

    In the Ngorongoro highlands, people and elephants are competing for land, and the EPI Foundation is looking at ways to mitigate conflict bet
    Watch Our Special Event on Africa’s Human-Wildlife Crisis
    • Apr 21, 2021
    • 1 min

    Watch Our Special Event on Africa’s Human-Wildlife Crisis

    On 4th May 2021, the EPI Foundation hosted a screening of ‘Living on the Edge’ by Black Bean Productions, followed by a discussion on...
    Forest Elephants; Endangered Treasures of Nigeria
    • Mar 26, 2021
    • 1 min

    Forest Elephants; Endangered Treasures of Nigeria

    In the week that the African forest elephant was declared Critically Endangered, take a look at this hidden camera footage from Okomu...
    The EPI's Greta Iori; conservation in Africa will fail unless it adopts a new approach
    • Mar 4, 2021
    • 1 min

    The EPI's Greta Iori; conservation in Africa will fail unless it adopts a new approach

    The EPI's Greta Iori appeared on Al Jazeera English with a powerful opinion piece in which she called for urgent changes in conservation....
    Huge seizure of illegal wildlife products by Nigerian customs officials
    • Feb 5, 2021
    • 2 min

    Huge seizure of illegal wildlife products by Nigerian customs officials

    Important new details have emerged about the seizure of illegal wildlife products by Nigerian customs officials at Apapa port in Lagos in...
    The EPI on Australia's ABC News
    • Jan 19, 2021
    • 1 min

    The EPI on Australia's ABC News

    The EPI's Dr Winnie Kiiru recently appeared on Australia's ABC News channel, discussing the apparent stabilisation of Africa’s elephant...
    The Halo Trust joins the EPI
    • Dec 8, 2020
    • 1 min

    The Halo Trust joins the EPI

    The EPI Foundation is delighted to announce that the Halo Trust has become an EPI partner, the 34th non-governmental or...
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