EWB Lecture Series for Guides

Congratulations / Kealeboga to the “graduate” guides who have completed EWB’s Research Lecture Series! In the wake of the COVID-19 crisis, travel and tourism in Botswana has  dwindled and one of the strongest disciplines hit were the pillars of the industry, the trained safari Guides. Admirably, many here in Chobe decided to take this time […]

Iconic Baobab Protection

The Baobab is a long-lived tree that is admired throughout Africa, with very large Baobabs living over 1000 years! They play an important environmental role but are also valued as a source of food, water, health remedy, shelter and are revered in superstition and legend. They are stunning trees and their beauty has been admired […]

World Environment Day 2019

On the 5th of June Elephants Without Borders Education program hosted an afternoon event to commemorate World Environment day (WED). This year’s theme was focused on “air pollution” and thus, this event focused on the importance of trees, as the “lungs of our environment.” The day was organised in partnership with the Ministry of Basic […]

Appreciation and Hope for Elephants

As the festive season is underway, our team at Elephants Without Borders would like to take this opportunity to briefly reflect on 2017 and provide our gratitude for your support throughout the year.  This year, as we continue with our elephant and wildlife monitoring research programme, following the herds, monitoring elephants throughout Botswana from Chobe to […]

African Bush Fire & the Elephant

The African Bushfire and the Elephant has received wonderful reviews and recently been selected as Dr. Toy’s “10 Best Socially Responsible Products of 2017” and as “100 Best Children’s Products of 2017!”  We are very proud to be working with Sylvia Medina, founder of the Green Kids Club, author to dozens of International children’s books. […]

EWB’s latest Scientific Publications

We are pleased to be able to share two EWB’s co-authored, peer-reviewed scientific papers that have recently been published this last month, please see the abstracts and links here. Our research strives to provide proper information based on data to the decision makers on wildlife conservation efforts across the Continent. To access other scientific publications, […]

Nothing Short of a Miracle… Elephant Rescue

On the evening of Sep. 4th Elephants Without Borders (EWB) received a call from Dept. of Wildlife & National Parks (DWNP) Problem Animal Control (PAC) about a young elephant that had fallen into a well and was asking for EWB’s assistance to help attend to the problem. Immediately, Kelly called wildlife veterinarian Dr. Larry Patterson […]

Walk for Eco-Literacy Environmental Campaign

“Empowering Future Leaders Today, for a Healthier World Tomorrow!” Last week, we hit the pavement (literally) on a campaign to promote environmental practices across Chobe District, the Walk for Eco-Literacy, was organized by Ducere Foundation and Elephants Without Borders in partnership with Chobe Regional Educational offices, under the Ministry of Basic Education. Objectives of the Walk for Eco-Literacy: […]

The Ultimate Power Nap! new publication in Plos One

  Article Source: “The ultimate power nap: Researchers use ‘Fitbits’ to track elephant sleep in the wild.”  ScienceDaily, 2 March 2017 <www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/03/170302115731.htm>. Materials provided by University of the Witwatersrand.  Behavioral studies of elephant sleep in zoos record that they sleep around four hours per day and can sleep standing up or lying down — but how much do they […]