May 273 minIt’s Time to Move Beyond IvoryThe Elephant Protection Initiative Foundation (EPIF) believes that a resumption of legal international trade in elephant ivory, as...
May 242 minSaving Elephants By Securing Ivory StocksThe EPI Foundation is training officials across Africa to manage their ivory stockpiles and prevent leakages onto the illegal market. The...
May 82 minEPI’s Greta Iori Joins Specialist Group on Wildlife ConflictThe EPI Foundation is delighted to announce that our Director of Programme Development, Greta Iori, has been invited to become a member...
Apr 122 minSaving Our Planet’s BiodiversityWe live to fight another day. Recent negotiations in Geneva, intended to facilitate progress at the UN Biodiversity Summit due to take...
Mar 22 minEPI Foundation Celebrates UNEP at 50The Elephant Protection Initiative (EPI) Foundation offers its warm congratulations to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) on...
Jan 71 minWatch the EPIF's Special Event on Africa’s Critically Endangered Forest ElephantsOn the 26th of January 2022, the EPI Foundation hosted an exclusive film from Nigeria's Omo Forest Reserve, followed by a high-level...
Jan 71 minThe Training of the TrainersThe EPI Foundation was delighted to support the Ethiopian Wildlife Conservation Authority (EWCA) in holding a "Training of the Trainers"...
Dec 14, 20212 minThe Omicron OpportunityThe emergence of the Omicron variant is further bad news for Africa, and for African conservation, after two very difficult years of the...
Sep 10, 20212 minReducing Human-Elephant Conflict; the EPI Foundation unveils a strategy for harmonious coexistenceThe EPI Foundation today announces a new strategy to address human-elephant conflict (HEC), which is fast emerging as the greatest threat...
Sep 1, 20211 minWatch the EPIF's Special Event on Africa’s Human-Wildlife CrisisOn the 21st of September 2021, the EPI Foundation hosted a short film on the urgent situation in the Babile Elephant Sanctuary, Ethiopia,...
Aug 12, 20212 minNew Chinese partners for the EPIOn this World Elephant Day the Elephant Protection Initiative (EPI) Foundation and the China Biodiversity Conservation and Green...
Jul 8, 20211 minEPIF urges UN Summit to show greater ambition on Human-Wildlife ConflictThe Elephant Protection Initiative (EPI) Foundation has urged attendees to the forthcoming UN Biodiversity Summit (known as CBD CoP15),...
Jul 5, 20211 minThe 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...
Jun 15, 20212 minPeople and elephants: the competition for land in Tanzania’s highlandsIn the Ngorongoro highlands, people and elephants are competing for land, and the EPI Foundation is looking at ways to mitigate conflict bet
Apr 21, 20211 minWatch Our Special Event on Africa’s Human-Wildlife CrisisOn 4th May 2021, the EPI Foundation hosted a screening of ‘Living on the Edge’ by Black Bean Productions, followed by a discussion on...
Mar 26, 20211 minForest Elephants; Endangered Treasures of NigeriaIn the week that the African forest elephant was declared Critically Endangered, take a look at this hidden camera footage from Okomu...
Mar 4, 20211 minThe EPI's Greta Iori; conservation in Africa will fail unless it adopts a new approachThe EPI's Greta Iori appeared on Al Jazeera English with a powerful opinion piece in which she called for urgent changes in conservation....
Feb 5, 20212 minHuge seizure of illegal wildlife products by Nigerian customs officialsImportant new details have emerged about the seizure of illegal wildlife products by Nigerian customs officials at Apapa port in Lagos in...
Jan 19, 20211 minThe EPI on Australia's ABC NewsThe EPI's Dr Winnie Kiiru recently appeared on Australia's ABC News channel, discussing the apparent stabilisation of Africa’s elephant...
Dec 8, 20201 minThe 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...