News from the Field

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.

Our friend of the month is Alexander Stonor, an Africa-based Franco-British sustainability, environmental, social and governance (ESG) consultant.

The EPI Board of Trustees welcome Honourable Sharon Ikeazor, CON, and Professor Lee White, CBE. Honourable Ikeazor has also accepted an invitation from the Board members to serve as Chair of the Board.

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.

Kristina Obame, our friend of the month for April, is a bilingual Gabonese writer/producer currently residing in Libreville, Gabon.

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

How continental strategies become localised national action plans that turn policies into tangible impact for communities living close to elephants

In honour of women in conservation, we feature Greta F. Iori, an Ethiopian-Italian at the forefront of human-elephant coexistence.

Our friend of the month is Mr. Arfou Saley Baouna, an Inspector of Water and Forests at the Kandadji National Nature Reserve (RNNK) in Niger