23/12/2024
Our amazing gentle giants 🐘🐘🐘
Everyone visiting Namibia’s desert elephants has a role to play in their survival 🐘
This is how👇
Tourism and traffic around the desert-dwelling elephants have increased so much in the past years that we have started seeing a negative impact on the well-being of the elephants.
While tourism is vital for the local economy, stress and exposure to human foods have put elephants at greater risk of developing conflict-causing behaviors.
In the past, elephants that have developed such behaviours as a consequence of getting used to human food (such as bread and fruits) have been shot as problem-causing animals.
Everyone visiting areas where elephants dwell must adhere to the following rules which have been endorsed by all relevant conservancies, and institutions such as TASA, HAN, and CARAN.
Please follow these rules to prevent elephants from being shot:
✅ Stay in your car
✅ Drive slowly
✅ Max. 3 vehicles per elephant sighting
✅ Keep a safe distance of at least 70 meters
❌ Do not feed elephants
❌ Do not keep food accessible to elephants
❌ No wild camping
❌ Do not create new tracks
We are grateful to collaborate with TOSCO on implementing these guidelines and code of ethical conduct around elephants across the northwest of Namibia where elephant populations are at risk.
If you have any concerns or questions, please feel free to reach out to [email protected] 📩
