WWF's African Elephant Programme provides strategic support and gudiance to help guarantee a future for this magnificent species across Africa.

Working through WWF's offices in Central, Eastern, Southern and West Africa and with numerous partners, the programme aims to conserve viable populations of forest and savannah elephants in at least 10 range states.

It seeks to achieve this by supporting projects that:
 

• Improve elephant protection and management - by providing equipment and training to anti-poaching teams; promoting the creation of new protected areas and improving the management of existing protected areas; developing community-based wildlife management schemes that contribute to elephant conservation while providing benefits to local people; and determining population sizes.
   
• Reduce illegal trade - by monitoring trends in the illegal trade in elephant products; conducting surveys to update data on domestic ivory markets; and working with the WWF and TRAFFIC Wildlife Crime Initiative.
   
• Build capacity within range states - by helping range state governments to produce sub-regional and national elephant conservation strategies; developing capacity to survey, census and monitor elephant populations; providing training; and advocating for range states to update and implement legislation to protect elephants.
   
• Mitigate human-elephant conflict - by training wildlife managers and local communities to use effective tools; and refining current methods based on what works best in specific situations.