![African elephant, South Africa](/https/www.wwf.org.uk/sites/default/files/styles/max_650x650/public/2019-11/Original_WW238762.jpg?itok=6R5uegnb)
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![Asian elephants](/https/www.wwf.org.uk/sites/default/files/styles/max_650x650/public/2019-11/Original_WW142116.jpg?itok=OFHIdTGr)
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![Asian elephants bathing, Sumatra, Indonesia](/https/www.wwf.org.uk/sites/default/files/styles/max_650x650/public/2019-11/Original_WW22191.jpg?itok=iWvOHGBh)
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![African elephant herd, Maasai Mara, Kenya](/https/www.wwf.org.uk/sites/default/files/styles/max_650x650/public/2019-11/Original_WW254225.jpg?itok=FKGaEu1L)
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© Paul Zasky
![African elephants caught on camera trap, Namibia](/https/www.wwf.org.uk/sites/default/files/styles/max_650x650/public/2019-11/Original_WW1105295.jpg?itok=t3tgAk8n)
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![African elephant calf and its mother, Amboseli National Park, Kenya](/https/www.wwf.org.uk/sites/default/files/styles/max_650x650/public/2019-11/Original_WW185817.jpg?itok=jCkTRXyO)
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© WWF / James Morgan
![GPS collared elephant, Kenya](/https/www.wwf.org.uk/sites/default/files/styles/content_slide_image/public/2019-11/Tressa%20%283%29.jpg?h=d55ea1da&itok=peNcd1IK)
© Austine Okande / WWF-Kenya
WWF's work
WWF's work
We collaborate with partners, governments, and communities in east Africa and across Asia to protect elephant populations and their habitats. This includes maintaining and restoring ‘wildlife corridors’ so elephants can migrate safely.
We also support local people to live more safely alongside wildlife, including strategies to reduce crop damage from elephants, such as using solar powered electric fences and installing beehives (as elephants dislike bees).
![A beekeeper maintaining one of his beehives, which helps deter elephants, Thailand](/https/www.wwf.org.uk/sites/default/files/styles/content_slide_image/public/2019-11/thai-beekeper.jpg?h=9dd951d5&itok=mNt_CvlY)
© Thomas Cristofoletti / WWF-US
And we’re monitoring elephants...
And we’re monitoring elephants...
...by regularly surveying them and tracking their movements with GPS collars, to keep both elephants and people safe.