Implementing the African Elephant Action Plan
10-year elephant conservation strategies.
The African Elephant Action Plan(AEAP) was updated and endorsed in 2023 to keep abreast with the challenges and dynamics of conserving and managing elephants, and to ensure it remains an adaptive tool that will enable range States to have a comprehensive source from which to guide actions to address the multitude of threats elephants face and to ensure the species’ conservation across its range. Recognising the potential of elephants to provide significant ecological, socio-cultural, and economic benefits to humankind.
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Critical to successfully achieving the AEAP's goals is the development and implementation of individual National Elephant Action Plans. These plans, championed by national governments and made possible through technical and financial support from the EPI Foundation, provide a framework for effective elephant conservation on a country-by-country basis.
National Elephant Action Plans
Completed
Angola
2018
Chad
2018
Ethiopia
2018
Aligned to the Sustainable Development Goals
Our NEAPs are aligned to the UN's Sustainable Development Goals introduced in 2016. We believe that the challenges of conservation and ending poverty cannot be seen in isolation - they are mutually supporting targets.
NEAP Team Lead
Dr Hugo Jachmann
Hugo is a wildlife ecologist with a Ph.D. in elephant ecology and many years of experience with wildlife research, management and law enforcement. He has worked for various organisations throughout the African continent: Long term positions were as elephant researcher in Malawi, advisor research and wildlife management in Burkina Faso, as Assistant Director for the LIRDP in the Luangwa Valley in Zambia, as Chief Technical Advisor for the Environmental Council in Lusaka, Zambia, and as Senior Technical Advisor for the Wildlife Division in Ghana.
Additionally, he has worked as a short-term consultant on many different assignments in 10 different African countries, ranging from consultant human-elephant conflict in Mali to consultant on elephant translocation in Senegal as a member of the African Elephant Specialist Group.
