The EPIF Welcomes Minister Sharon Ikeazor to the Leadership Council
The Elephant Protection Initiative (EPI) Foundation is delighted to announce that Nigeria’s Minister of State for Niger Delta Affairs,...
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- Apr 11
- 2 min
Elephants and People; What does Coexistence look like?
The EPI Foundation was delighted to send a team to the IUCN conference on human-wildlife conflict and co-existence in Oxford, England,...
- Jan 26
- 2 min
Congratulations to Dr Winnie Kiiru
The Elephant Protection Initiative (EPI) Foundation offers warm congratulations to its departing Director of Government Relations, Dr...
- Dec 20, 2022
- 2 min
EPI Foundation Welcomes Agreement on Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework
The Elephant Protection Initiative (EPI) Foundation welcomes the agreement at the UN Biodiversity Conference in Montreal on a Post-2020...
- Dec 18, 2022
- 2 min
Human-Elephant Conflict a Threat to Elephant’s Survival, say African Range States
African countries belonging to the Elephant Protection Initiative (EPI) have met on the side-lines of the UN Biodiversity Conference in...
- Nov 23, 2022
- 2 min
Stopping ivory from leaking onto the illegal market
At CITES CoP19 the Elephant Protection Initiative Foundation (EPIF) highlights its pioneering work across Africa in securing stockpiles...
- Jul 14, 2022
- 2 min
Clock ticking for Biodiversity
Late night wrangling, bleary-eyed delegates, acres of text in brackets, and fraying tempers. By all accounts, the negotiations in Nairobi...
- May 27, 2022
- 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...
- May 24, 2022
- 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...
- May 8, 2022
- 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...
- Apr 12, 2022
- 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...
- Mar 2, 2022
- 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...
- Jan 7, 2022
- 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...
- Jan 7, 2022
- 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"...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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,...
- 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...
- 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),...
- 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...
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