News from the Field

Ivory trafficking still haunts Africa’s elephants, but Burkina Faso is fighting back.

Over the past 10 years, we have worked closely with the EPI member states, significantly contributing to maintaining the international moratorium on commercial ivory trade, the closure of domestic ivory markets, and helping to keep ivory stockpiles from leaking onto the illegal market. Read more in this excerpt of our 10-year report.

Report on the workshops in Guinea and Togo conducted in March to train wildlife officials on the Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for managing ivory and other wildlife products.

Increasing Liberia and Sierra Leone’s capacity to secure wildlife product stockpiles and thereby help to reduce the impact of the illegal wildlife trade across West Africa

The Theory of Change outlined here is a holistic approach to address ivory trafficking.

Charlie Henson, who is from the United Kingdom, has recently joined our team as Program Manager for Stockpile Management.

As we go about life, safety is something we think about constantly. Not just personal safety, but material safety too. That’s why we...

The EPI Foundation’s Ulysse Korogone, has just returned from a trip to the far north of his native Benin Republic, where he was working...

By Andrew Crichton, EPI Foundation Head of Operations. Andrew Crichton in Jamba I stood on the edge of a vast, sun-drenched plain,...

To save elephants, we need to stop the illegal trade in ivory, and this involves a lot more than catching poachers. Ruth Musgrave, our...

The Elephant Protection Initiative Foundation highlighted its pioneering work across Africa in securing stockpiles of ivory and other...

The Elephant Protection Initiative Foundation believes that a resumption of legal international trade in elephant ivory, as recently...