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BBC Radio 4 – Crossing Continents: Botswana Living with elephants

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Tune in to John Murphy’s broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on the following link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001p21d to hear more about people Living with elephants in the Okavango Delta and the work of Ecoexist. The battle to keep the peace between people and elephants in northern Botswana. The earth’s largest land mammal, the elephant, is an endangered… Read more »

Africa Geographic: Life With Elephants

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In 2019, a great article was published by Simon Espley about Ecoexist’s work in the Okavango Panhandle and exploring What Rural Batswana Feel About Elephants – beyond Politics and Ideoligies. Read the full article at the link below:https://africageographic.com/stories/life-with-elephants/

Geographical and ATTA best Wildlife and Nature Article: Living with Elephants

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We have uploaded the ATTA best Wildlife and Nature Article award winning article by James Gifford about Ecoexist and our work in the Okavango to reduce human-elephant conflict and foster coexistence into our documents folder. Please read the full article at the link below: https://www.ecoexistproject.org/documents/living-with-elephants.pdf

Ecoexist Field Guides

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ECOEXIST TRUST_Field Guide 1_Protecting your field_ENGLISH ECOEXIST TRUST_FieldGuide2_Protecting food for your family ECOEXIST TRUST_FieldGuide 3_Safety Around Elephants_English ECOEXIST TRUST_FieldGuide 3_ Safety Around Elephants_Setswana

Ecoexist Scientific Publications

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Songhurst, A, Baitseng, M, Lalley, JS, Lupton S, Molatlhegi M, Mosupi, O, Nkalolang I, Sensinyi, B, Stronza, A, Taylor, T, Holle, K, & McCulloch, G. (2023). All aboard the ‘Elephant Express’, a practical solution for human-elephant coexistence. Pachyderm. No. 64 October 2022 – September 2023. https://pachydermjournal.org/index.php/pachyderm/article/view/533/1275. Songhurst, A. (2023). Probing the Complexities of Actual and… Read more »

Irish Times: Irish couple working to resolve conflict between elephants and farmers in Africa

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Vanessa Conneely How do you stop yourself being trampled by an elephant in your sleep? Attach chilli peppers to a fence of course! That’s just one of the many things I learned from ecologist Dr Graham McCulloch. The 41-year-old from Ballyboughal in north Co Dublin has called Botswana home for 20 years. “After I finished… Read more »

BBC Discover: Human-elephant conflict is a major conservation challenge in Botswana

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Human-elephant conflict is a major conservation challenge in Botswana. BBC Wildlife meets Makata Baitseng from the Ecoexist Project. In the April 2015 issue of BBC Wildlife you can read all about a project to protect elephants and people in the Okavango Delta in Botswana. This film by Richard Hughes highlights some of the key problems…. Read more »

The Elephant in Her Backyard, Part Two

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By Cheryl Merrill Subsistence farmers depend on hard work and luck. About 70% of rural households in Botswana derive their livelihoods from subsistence farming crops dependent upon seasonal rains. As a consequence of low and erratic rainfall and relatively poor soils, such farms have low productivity. Keikagile (Kee-ka-HEE-lay) owns such a farm, in the panhandle… Read more »

The Elephant in Her Backyard, Part One

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By Cheryl Merrill For several months of each year Keikagile (Kee-ka-HEE-lay) has elephants in her backyard. Entire herds of elephants. Lions, zebras, crocodiles, hippos, hyenas, and other wild denizens of Africa surround her home. But it’s the elephants she most fears, for they can destroy her entire farm in just one night. Keikagile lives in… Read more »