Bring The Elephant Home

21/09/2026

Bring The Elephant Home partnered with อุทยานแห่งชาติกุยบุรี - Kui Buri National Park, สมาคมนิเวศยั่งยืน Ecoexist Society - ECS, EarthRanger and Wildlife Protection Solutions to host a training workshop to support farmers and rangers to establish an Early Warning System co-management strategy.

Bring The Elephant Home’s network of SMS-integrated, AI-assisted camera traps sends alerts when an elephant is detected in farmland, and workshop attendees developed skills in using EarthRanger to report elephant detections and crop and property damage.

This approach aligns local leadership, multi-stakeholder partnerships and real-time monitoring to enable safe and proactive human-elephant conflict mitigation.

Special thanks to our donors who made this workshop possible, including Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden, The Rufford Foundation, Center for Species Survival: Asian Elephant, Lucie Burgers Foundation, Abri voor Dieren and Idea Wild.

14/09/2026

We would like to thank The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee for awarding us with their International Partners Grant.🐘

With this funding, we will conduct a series of community workshops that will build capacity for local people to participate in wildlife monitoring and conservation science. Local people will be trained to identify individual elephants and to assign body condition scores for wild elephants as a non-invasive way to monitor individual-level and population-level health in Kuiburi National Park.

If you think this sounds exciting, you’re in luck! Because people from around the world can contribute to this work as well by participating in our community science project on Zooniverse. Here you will help us compare three different body condition scoring techniques. The project consists of three parts, each taking approximately 20 minutes to complete, and no prior research or wildlife experience is required.

🔗Complete the Google Form below to register
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf5SmbqnsP3Mm5HPS-yOidyC-QtmcZuITq08xbw5rzaPBprXw/viewform

30/08/2026

Next weekend, our Director of Strategy, Ave Owen, will present at the online and free conference of AIP: Anthrozoology as International Practice! 🌿

Ave will talk about the inequities of human-elephant coexistence in Thailand and dive deeper in the deterrent strategies and crop protection costs. Ave will present findings from their master research on the financial and social costs of living near elephants in farms bordering Kuiburi National Park.

Join Ave’s presentation at 2:10pm UTC on Saturday, September 5!
🔗 Register for the event here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/anthrozoology-as-international-practice-aip2026-tickets-1990882836156

24/08/2026

Bring The Elephant Home partnered with EarthRanger to host a participatory training workshop for 35 local people, including Kui Buri Wildlife Ecotourism Club members and Kuiburi National Park rangers.

Workshop participants shared their ideas and priorities for spatial and temporal wildlife monitoring during ecotourism activities in Kuiburi National Park, followed by practical training using the EarthRanger mobile app.

Our partnership with EarthRanger has enhanced BTEH’s long-term elephant monitoring program in Kuiburi National Park, and this workshop represents an important step towards our vision of community-based conservation and locally led scientific research. By combining local knowledge, long-term field experience and accessible monitoring technology, we aim to strengthen the capacity of local stakeholders to collect and use wildlife data within the landscapes they know best.

This was the first in a series of participatory workshops. We are grateful to the funders making this work possible, including Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden, The Rufford Foundation, Center for Species Survival: Asian Elephant, Lucie Burgers Foundation, Abri voor Dieren and The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee.

21/08/2026

The collars are coming off, but the story they helped uncover is just beginning. 🐘🌿

Over the past several years, Bring The Elephant Home and the Kariega Foundation, working alongside the Kariega Game Reserve team and research partners, have been studying what happens when reserves remove fence and give elephants and other wildlife something increasingly rare: more space to move.

And the results are incredibly exciting.

Following the removal of internal fences and the expansion of available elephant habitat at Kariega Game Reserve:

⬇️ Stress hormones decreased
⬇️ Aggressive behaviour decreased
⬆️ Movement increased
🐘 Elephants expanded their home ranges
🐘 Healthy seasonal rotation patterns emerged, with elephants shifting their use of the landscape across seasons
🌿 And importantly, vegetation density in areas used by elephants were comparable to areas without elephants —challenging the assumption that elephant presence inevitably leads to ecological degradation.

Together, these findings challenge one of the most persistent narratives surrounding elephant conservation:

What if the problem isn’t too many elephants—but not enough space?

Elephants evolved to move across vast, dynamic landscapes—following rainfall, resources and seasonal changes. At Kariega, the bold choice in removing barriers allowed us to watch what happened when elephants were once again able to make more of those choices for themselves.

The results tell a powerful story about space, connectivity and coexistence—and demonstrate why expanding and reconnecting habitat can be an important alternative to managing elephants simply by managing their numbers.

The collars may be coming off, but the journey to remove fences and reconnect landscapes in Southern Africa continues.

Thank you to all of the many people and partners who joined us on this journey and made it possible.

🎥 Watch the full story on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTrVmHABlKo

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16/08/2026

Support Fairuse's training and help to protect Asian Elephants in Bangladesh!🐘

Bangladesh is home to one of the smallest and most vulnerable Asian elephant populations. Habitat loss, fragmentation, and human–elephant conflict continue to threaten both elephants and local communities, making local conservation leadership essential. By joining BTEH’s Elephant Research Program, Fairuse can gain hands-on field training and bring that knowledge back to strengthen elephant conservation in Bangladesh.

Your support is not just funding one person’s training, it is investing in the future of elephants, communities, and coexistence in Bangladesh.

Donate now: https://bteh.org/asia/help-me-fulfil-my-passion-for-elephant-conservation-fairuse/

12/08/2026

Celebrate World Elephant Day by helping us reach the finish line!

Today is World Elephant Day, and there's never been a better time to help create a safer future for elephants.

Our wildlife camera sponsorship campaign has yet to achieve its €5,000 goal, and our Zooniverse community science project needs more volunteers to help analyze wildife camera images.

Whether you donate, volunteer, or share this post, your support helps protect elephants and the communities that live alongside them.

Donate: https://bteh.org/asia/sponsor-a-wildlife-camera
Participate: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf5SmbqnsP3Mm5HPS-yOidyC-QtmcZuITq08xbw5rzaPBprXw/viewform

08/08/2026

🐘 Healthy elephants help create healthy ecosystems.

Our wildlife cameras do more than capture incredible moments. They help us monitor elephant movement, behaviour, and body condition in Kuiburi National Park.

Now you can help too.

Through our Body Condition Scoring Project on Zooniverse, community scientists around the world help analyse wildlife camera images and identify elephants that may need closer monitoring. Every image you classify contributes to real conservation research.

📋 Ready to get started? Complete the Google Form and follow the tutorial to begin classifying:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf5SmbqnsP3Mm5HPS-yOidyC-QtmcZuITq08xbw5rzaPBprXw/viewform

Short on time? You can still make a difference by sponsoring a wildlife camera. Every donation helps us continue monitoring wild Asian elephants and moves us closer to our €5,000 fundraising goal.

📷 Sponsor a wildlife camera here:
https://bteh.org/asia/sponsor-a-wildlife-camera/

07/08/2026

How do elephant calves change as they grow? 🐘

In our latest blog, Stephanie Enzinna, a BSc student at the University of Florida, shares her work with The BTEH Lab.

Stephanie first visited Bring The Elephant Home’s field station last summer through a research program with the School for Field Studies. Since then, she has continued collaborating with us remotely, completing a fascinating project on calf age structures and changes in behaviour and morphology as elephant calves develop.

Read Stephanie’s blog to learn more about her work — and complete the registration form on our website if you’re interested in a remote internship opportunity with The BTEH Lab.

https://bteh.org/asia/decoding-calf-development-a-bteh-lab-experience/

05/08/2026

A big thank you to Project Dragonfly at Miami University —the best Master’s program in biology!—for supporting our wildlife camera campaign. 🐘📷

Would you like to donate or participate in our citizen science research? Learn more: https://bteh.org/asia/sponsor-a-wildlife-camera/