International Elephant Project
Indonesia (Borneo & Sumatra) · 0.50°S · 102.00°E
protecting wild Asian elephants by safeguarding the rainforests and communities that share their home
About International Elephant Project
The International Elephant Project works to secure a future for Critically Endangered Sumatran and Bornean elephants by protecting the rainforests they share with tigers, orangutans and forest communities.
The last refuges of Sumatran and Bornean elephants are shrinking fast under illegal logging, clearance for farming, mining and poaching. As forests are carved up, elephants and people are pushed into ever closer contact, and the resulting conflict is dangerous for both. Lose these elephants and an entire web of life, including tigers and orangutans, unravels with them.
The project takes a deliberately holistic view, reasoning that safeguarding elephants means safeguarding the whole ecosystem around them. It combines field science, technology and close partnership with the communities who live alongside wildlife, working as part of a wider family of conservation efforts spanning Borneo, Sumatra and beyond.
Much of the work centres on the Bukit Tigapuluh landscape, where monitoring teams fit GPS collars and run an early-warning system that alerts farmers when herds approach their fields, helping crops and elephants stay safe. Patrol units tackle the threats driving deforestation, while community engagement builds local support for protecting elephants long term.
This is practical, measurable conservation rather than headlines, and it depends on teams being out in the forest day after day. Support keeps collars transmitting, patrols active and the early-warning network running, giving these elephants and their forests a fighting chance.
Elephant adoption programme
supporter adoptions that fund frontline elephant protection work in Sumatra and Laos
Wildlife Ambulance
an emergency team giving urgent medical care to injured and displaced elephants in Sumatra
Rainforest and habitat protection
defending the wider forest ecosystem and biodiversity that elephants depend on to survive
Local community partnerships
working alongside people who live near elephants so conservation and livelihoods can succeed together
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