ECRF is partnering with Bring The Elephant Home for their October Giving Campaign through Benevity to support community-based human–elephant coexistence solutions in Kenya.
Elephants face growing threats from habitat loss, poaching, climate change, and human–elephant conflict. Orphaned calves may also need specialized care, warmth, and rehabilitation before they can return to the wild.
The Elephant Conservation and Research Fund supports partners in the field, such as Bring The Elephant Home, who conduct practical, evidence-based conservation, from caring for orphaned calves and equipping local researchers to monitoring wild elephants and developing community-based human–elephant coexistence solutions.
| Donation Tier | Direct Impact on Elephant Conservation |
| $25 | Provides essential field and orphanage supplies, such as datasheets, milk bottles, and hot-water bottles for orphaned calves. |
| $50 | Supports one week of elephant-behavior and welfare monitoring by an elephant orphanage caregiver. |
| $100 | Contributes to camera traps and acoustic monitoring devices used to study elephant movements, populations, behaviour and welfare. |
| $250 | Contributes to specialised elephant calf-care equipment, including mattresses, elephant jackets or blankets, and infrared heat lamps. |
| $500 | Funds one community-based human–elephant coexistence initiative (beehive fence, early warning system, etc.). |
| $1,000 | Supports research-vehicle costs, enabling local teams to monitor elephants, care for orphaned calves, and work with communities to develop coexistence solutions. |
Our goal is to raise $10,000 USD in October, with matching contributions doubling your impact. This means every dollar you give can go twice as far in caring for elephants, advancing research and creating safer shared landscapes for elephants and people.
From an orphaned calf’s first bottle to community-based solutions that help people and elephants live safely alongside one another, your donation creates meaningful change. Together, we can help elephants and people thrive.
You can also symbolically adopt an elephant to continue supporting global elephant conservation!
Together, we can give elephants the future they deserve.
