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...
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- 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...
- 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
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
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