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The Travel Channel's Ethical Hedonist's feature on EHRA Life on the EHRA project created by one of our volunteers.People of Change - Elephant Human Relations Aid (EHRA) from Fernando Sapelli.
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About Elephant Human Relations Aid (EHRA)Elephant Human Relations Aid is an Namibian registered not for gain organisation (registration number 21/2003/630) which runs an elephant conservation and volunteer project in Namibia, Africa. EHRA aims to find long-term sustainable solutions to the ever-growing problem of facilitating the peaceful co-habitation between the subsistence farmers, community members and the desert adapted elephants. In the 1980's the population of desert adapted elephants in the Southern Kunene Region of Damaraland were wiped out through years of poaching and hunting. For years elephants were absent from the area. This was until 1998 when Voortrekker, a bull, lead Mama Africa's herd back to the Ugab River. From that point other herds followed until today where there are a total of 7 elephant herds in the Ugab and Huab River vicinities. Through concerted efforts by the Ministry of Environment and Tourism (MET), IRDNC, Save the Rhino Trust and other NGO’s over the past 20 years, the population of desert dwelling elephants in the region has grown from as low as 52 members to a current population of over 600 elephants.
Read more about the desert elephants here . While most people agree that the elephants returning is a good thing, it also causes problems for the people that live in the areas the elephants are returning to.
Left: Local Damaraland homestead
Depletion of the natural water table with increasing human use has led too less available surface water for consumption. Therefore, man-made water points located close to the riverbeds have become the target for elephants in their quest for fresh water. Left: Elephants drinking at dam |
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