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Elephant Conservation PEACE Project
EHRA's PEACE Project
With this project, EHRA seeks to harmonize relationships between people and elephants to decrease conflict through education, raising awareness, and promoting ventures to enhance the livelihoods of people living with elephants.In the communal areas of Northwest Namibia, where most of the country’s desert-dwelling elephants live, conflicts between people and elephants are frequent. Many native people are unfamiliar with elephant behavior, resulting in a high level of fear and dislike of elephants. Some pressure the Namibian Government to remove, cull or otherwise “get rid of” the elephants. Some resort to shooting and wounding them out of frustration and anger.Very few people receive any benefits from this major tourist attraction living among them. Often, the only way people benefit from the elephants is through trophy hunting or hunting those declared as “problem animals”.
EHRA’s PEACE Project seeks to change that. Many people in the area have asked for information about elephants and how to live with them, as well as for information about the environment and ecology.This project aims to address these requests with a combination of educational programs, public talks and a brochure for resident adults and students, tourists and the general public. Besides seminars for community residents, field time observing elephants is part of the program.
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The PEACE (People and Elephants Amicably Co-Existing) Project, a community-based education project for the people of the southern Kunene and northern Erongo Regions, Namibia, focuses on people living in the communal areas along both banks of the Ugab River (which is the southern boundary of the Kunene Region in Northwest Namibia) and extending north to the Palmweg and Hobatere Concession Areas.It is state-owned land used primarily by farmers for subsistence livestock farming.
