Elephant Aware USA, Inc

10/04/2026

🎉🐾 Happy World Animal Day! 🌍💚🐘 Today, we celebrate all animals! One of the best parts of protecting and preserving elephants is that it helps every species who shares their habitat from lions to tigers, to sun bears (oh my!) to pangolin, giraffe, rhino, and more! We love nature and by focusing on elephants we can address whole-ecosystem benefits!
Who can name all of the species that make up this elephant?

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09/25/2026

https://bbc.com/news/articles/cv1j4yr6j2p0o Did you know that elephants are sentient beings with a language that we have yet to decipher, who do not get cancer and have discovered and use medicinal remedies to help one another?

African elephants use dozens of different medicinal plants to treat themselves and their families when they are sick, research reveals.

09/23/2026

https://www.miltontimes.com/news/elephants-in-boston-while-milton-nonprofit-champions-african-conservation/article_f48e4102-28bd-419b-a395-249000c7967b.html

Boston has a new visitor this season: 100 life-sized elephant sculptures now stand along Commonwealth Avenue Mall, part of a public art installation created by Elephant Family, a UK-based conservation

09/22/2026

Here is what $60,000 a year actually does.

It funds 18 Maasai rangers. It puts a vehicle, a drone, motorbikes, GPS cameras, and binoculars in the field. It keeps Elephant Aware operational for another year - monitoring herds, responding to human-elephant conflict, protecting the Ropile River Corridor, and doing the daily, unglamorous work that keeps elephants alive.

We are asking for your help to make that happen.

Our GoFundMe campaign is raising funds for the expansion of our Human-Wildlife Conflict programme - one of the most critical threats facing elephants in the Maasai Mara right now. As development encroaches on elephant habitat, the number of conflict incidents is rising sharply. The rangers are the first response. They need to be equipped and paid.

Can you give $25, $50, or $100 today?

Every dollar is tax-deductible. Every dollar goes directly to the field. And every dollar matters.

https://gofund.me/f1ad3a145 - or visit elephantawareusa.org to donate.

Within the globally renowned Maasai Mara ecosystem in Kenya… Elephant Aware USA., Inc needs your support for Preventing Human Wildlife Conflict - Support Elephant Aware

09/10/2026

Conservation only works when it works for people too.

In the communities surrounding Kenya's Siana Conservation Area, traditional firewood collection has long been a daily necessity. But it comes at a cost - to the woodland, to the habitat, and ultimately to the wildlife that depends on it. Deforestation and habitat loss are among the biggest threats to elephants in Kenya today.

Elephant Aware has been working with over 600 community members to change that - providing eco-jikos, or eco-friendly cooking stoves, that use significantly less fuel than traditional methods. Less wood needed means less deforestation. Less deforestation means more habitat. More habitat means more wildlife.

Simple. Practical. Effective.

This is what community-led conservation looks like. It is not just about protecting elephants. It is about making conservation something that benefits the people who live alongside them - so that they become its guardians rather than its obstacles.

Elephant Aware is currently seeking funding to continue and expand this initiative. If you would like to be part of that - the link to donate is in our bio. Every dollar goes directly to the field. 🐘

Follow and share this page and donate at https://elephantawareusa.org/

Protecting Elephants and other wildlife in southern Kenya since 2008. The future of African elephants is in peril due to poaching, human-elephant conflict, habitat loss and climate change. “As wildlife conservationists, our mission is to secure a future for elephants, other wildlife and their natu...

09/09/2026

Did you know elephants have over 200 gestures?

They communicate through sound, touch, smell, and even vibrations felt through the ground - using frequencies so low that humans cannot hear them. These infrasonic calls can travel across miles of open savanna, allowing elephant families to stay in contact far beyond what we can detect.

They use their trunks to comfort one another, to discipline calves, to greet old friends after long absences. They secrete chemicals through their temporal glands that signal everything from excitement to distress. They recognise themselves in mirrors - one of the very few species on earth that can do so.

Elephants are not just large animals with good memories. They are complex, communicative, deeply social beings with inner lives that we are only beginning to understand.

The Elephant Aware team spends years learning to read these signals - understanding which elephant is which, what they are communicating, and how families are faring. It is patient, painstaking work. And it is essential.

Follow this page for more elephant facts throughout the month. And if this world fascinates you as much as it does us - the link to support the work is in our bio. 🐘

Follow this page and share with anyone who loves elephants. Donate at elephantawareusa.org - link in bio.

08/28/2026

This month we are raising funds for something simple but vital.

Clean water and essential field supplies for the Elephant Aware ranger team in Kenya.

18 rangers. One of the most remote landscapes in Africa. An extraordinary amount of dedication. And right now, they need our support to keep doing what they do.

We are aiming for $500 - enough to cover water and supplies for a month. It sounds modest. But for a team working in the field every single day, it is the difference between being able to focus on the elephants and worrying about the basics.

$10 from 50 people. $25 from 20. Or one donation from someone who wants to make a real and immediate difference.

All donations through Friends of Elephant Aware USA are fully tax-deductible. Every dollar goes directly to the team in the field.

Donate at the link in our bio. And if you cannot give right now - sharing this post costs nothing and means everything.

Thank you. 🐘

Donate at elephantawareusa.org - link in bio. Share if you can.

08/27/2026

His name was Lenana. It means the gentle one.

In 2013, the Elephant Aware rangers found him in the Siana Conservation Area - injured, struggling, and carrying a 15-inch spearhead embedded deep in his side. They called in the vet team, treated him, and then did something remarkable.

They stayed.

Night after night, the team parked beside him in the field, watching over him as he recovered. And slowly, something extraordinary happened. Lenana began to trust them.

He would approach the vehicle and rest his trunk on the roof. He would raise his injured leg onto the bonnet, as if asking for help. A wild elephant, choosing to lean on the people who had chosen to protect him.

He was getting better.

And then, one night, the poachers came back.

Lenana was killed. Not for large tusks - he barely had any. But because the demand for ivory was so desperate, so relentless, that even the smallest tusk was worth a life.

His memory lives in everything Elephant Aware does. His story is why the rangers get up every morning.

If his story moves you - please share it. And if you would like to help make sure it never happens again, the link to donate is in our bio.

Lenana. The gentle one. Always remembered. 🐘

Share this post and donate at elephantawareusa.org - link in bio.

Protecting Elephants and other wildlife in southern Kenya since 2008. The future of African elephants is in peril due to poaching, human-elephant conflict, habitat loss and climate change. “As wildlife conservationists, our mission is to secure a future for elephants, other wildlife and their natu...

08/21/2026

This month we are raising funds for something simple but vital.

Clean water and essential field supplies for the Elephant Aware ranger team in Kenya.

18 rangers. One of the most remote landscapes in Africa. An extraordinary amount of dedication. And right now, they need our support to keep doing what they do.

We are aiming for $500 - enough to cover water and supplies for a month. It sounds small. But for a team working in the field every single day, it is the difference between being able to focus on the elephants and worrying about the basics.

$10 from 50 people. $25 from 20. Or one donation from someone who wants to make a real and immediate difference.

All donations through Friends of Elephant Aware USA are fully tax-deductible. Every dollar goes directly to the team in the field.

Donate at the link in our bio. And if you cannot give right now - sharing this post costs nothing and means everything.

Thank you. 🐘

Donate at elephantawareusa.org - link in bio. Share if you can.

08/20/2026

Here is something most people do not know about elephants.

They only digest about 40% of what they eat. The rest passes through them - and in doing so, they scatter seeds across vast distances, contributing to tree regrowth across an entire ecosystem.

They dig for underground water with their tusks during droughts, creating pools that dozens of other species depend on to survive.

They knock down trees in ways that convert woodland to grassland - creating habitat for animals that cannot survive in dense forest.

Remove the elephants and you do not just lose the elephants. You lose the ecosystem that depends on them.

This is what conservation scientists mean when they call elephants a keystone species. Protecting them is not sentimental. It is practical. It is systemic. And it is urgent.

Elephant Aware has been doing exactly that in Kenya's Siana Conservation Area since 2008. Follow this page to find out how - and how you can help

Follow this page and share with anyone who loves wildlife. Donate at elephantawareusa.org.