{"id":2,"date":"2009-06-16T02:49:30","date_gmt":"2009-06-16T07:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elephantswithoutborders.org\/blog\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2009-06-16T13:15:08","modified_gmt":"2009-06-16T11:15:08","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/elephantswithoutborders.org\/blog\/?page_id=2","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><span style=\"color: #888888;\">Elephants Without Borders (EWB)\u00a0<br \/>\n<\/span>\u00a0<\/h1>\n<p align=\"justify\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #663300; font-size: small;\">Elephants Without Borders is a charitable organization dedicated to conserving wildlife and natural resources; through innovative research, education, and information sharing with all people, we strive to encourage mankind to live in harmony with wildlife and the natural world. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7\" title=\"Dr Mike Chase\" src=\"https:\/\/elephantswithoutborders.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/team_mike.jpg\" alt=\"Dr Mike Chase\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr Mike Chase<\/p><\/div>\n<p align=\"justify\">The African elephant is an ambassador for conservation, providing motivation for raising awareness, stimulating action, encouraging funding for conservation efforts, and generating opportunities to reconsider the boundaries between conservation and rural development.<\/p>\n<p>At Elephants Without Borders (EWB), we achieve this ambitious mission by:<br \/>\n\u2022 Conducting research and conservation studies on the ecology and behavior of African elephants<br \/>\n\u2022 Using state-of-the-art technology, such as satellite tracking collars and aerial surveys, we monitor the seasonal movement patterns of elephants; the size of their home ranges, identify wildlife corridors and habitats for elephants<br \/>\n\u2022 Sharing our information and data with policy makers and all people, this practice will support a long-term monitoring program that will improve wildlife conservation management<br \/>\n\u2022 Promoting environmental education and awareness in schools and rural communities that will allow an appreciation and respect for the natural world<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8\" title=\"Kelly Landen\" src=\"https:\/\/elephantswithoutborders.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/team_kelly.jpg\" alt=\"Kelly Landen\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kelly Landen<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u2022 Identifying and implementing sustainable measures that will help reduce human-elephant conflict, which encourages a compatible relationship between people and wildlife<br \/>\nEWB\u2019s vision is to open borders for Africa\u2019s wildlife through research and education, and help ensure a prosperous and compatible future between people and wildlife.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elephants Without Borders (EWB)\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><strong>Elephants Without Borders is a charitable organization dedicated to conserving wildlife and natural resources; through innovative research, education, and information sharing with all people, we strive to encourage mankind to live in harmony with wildlife and the natural world. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr Mike Chase<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">The African elephant is an ambassador [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elephantswithoutborders.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elephantswithoutborders.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elephantswithoutborders.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elephantswithoutborders.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elephantswithoutborders.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/elephantswithoutborders.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9,"href":"https:\/\/elephantswithoutborders.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/9"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elephantswithoutborders.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}