Protecting Biodiversity by Supporting People

Conservation Leadership Program

Grantee Name: Bring the Elephant Home Foundation

Hotspot: Indo-Burma
Location: Thailand
Amount: $19,897
Dates: Apr 2015 – Apr 2016
Keywords: Awareness, Capacity building, Community-based conservation, Education, Habitat conservation and management

Promote the conservation of Asian elephants in Salakpra Wildlife Sanctuary, Thailand, by establishing a "Conservation Leadership Program" (a local network of conservation leaders who will carry out forest restoration and human-elephant conflict mitigation initiatives) and by building the institutional capacity of Bring the Elephant Home.

Strategic Direction :

8 Strengthen the capacity of civil society to work on biodiversity, communities and livelihoods at regional, national, local and grassroots levels