An enormous threat to the survival of wild elephants is the growing conflict between elephants and people over natural resources. There are several websites that contain important information about the nature of human-elephant conflict (HEC) and how we can create more harmony in this relationship. Some of these websites are linked below.

Some resources/links:

Mitigating Human-Elephant conflict in the Amboseli Ecosystem, Kenya. Short presentation of this AERP project, with main experiences and conclusions listed.

The Challenging Relationship between people and wild elephants - some reflections about strategies and tools that can help us coexist. By Petter Granli.

African Elephant Specialist Group (AfESG), Human Elephant Conflict Working Group (HECWG)

The People & Wildlife Initiative: "Our goal is to provide an information and communication forum for human-wildlife conflict issues and present innovative approaches to resolve conflict"

The People & Wildlife Initiative: A review of human-elephant conflict management strategies." Alastair Nelson, Posy Bidwell & Claudio Sillero-Zubiri.

The People & Wildlife Initiative, links to other resources

Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, University of Oxford, Department of Zoology

Human-Elephant Conflict Project - WWF On the ground in TransMara, Kenya
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