Help Save the Indian Elephants:
The Elephant Corridor Project, India

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Indian elephants in Meghalaya State. Photo © Emily Brickell/World Land Trust. See more elephant photos »

New Elephant Corridor Appeal

World Land Trust and Wildlife Trust of India are creating new wildlife corridors in India and we have a donor who will match all donations, up to a total of £100,000. This means that we can be even more effective in saving wildlife, so please support the Indian Elephant Appeal to help threatened species such as Asian elephants and tigers.

Why protect elephants in India?

• India is home to 60% of the remaining Asian elephant populations making their survival in India critical to the survival of the species as a whole.
• Habitat loss, leading to fragmentation, is a serious threat to the Indian elephants.
• Habitat fragmentation results in small isolated populations of elephants which are vulnerable to extinctions.
• Large animals like elephants require substantial areas to support them. If protected areas are not large enough, elephants may search for food elsewhere. This often results in conflicts with humans, due to elephants raiding or destroying crops.

Elephant Corridors: What the World Land Trust is doing to help

The World Land Trust (WLT) is working with the Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) to create a network of forest corridors to enable the Indian elephants to move safely between protected areas to avoid human-elephant conflict and protect critical elephant habitat. WTI have identified 88 elephant corridors, which have been prioritised based on their conservation importance and the feasibility of protecting the corridor. WTI and the World Land Trust are working together to protect these corridors one by one.

Ensuring the survival of a ‘flagship’ species like the Asian elephant requires the protection of the entire habitat, which means that the initiative will also benefit other wildlife that rely on the forest for their survival.

Learn more about the elephant corridors

Siju-Rewak Corridor
Tirunelli-Kudrakote Corridor

Supporting local people

In a country with more than a billion people, it is vital that any conservation initiative involves the local communities, to ensure that project is a success. This project benefits not only the wildlife but also villagers close to the corridors by reducing conflict through the creation of the corridors and by providing the financial capability and expertise to create alternative livelihoods to the ‘slash-and burn’ agriculture which has led to the rapid depletion of the natural forests.

How you can help:

Learn More:

• Wildlife corridors in India
• Project brief for the Wildlife Corridor Project in India (pdf 218kb - opens in new window)
• External link: Wildlife Trust of India

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