Help endangered elephants
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What would it be like spending a holiday helping endangered elephants?
The Sri Lankan elephant (Elephas maximus maximus) has shared a special bond with the people of Sri Lanka for centuries. Things are changing, though, and these wonderful animals now face an uncertain future with less than 3,500 in the wild.
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Habitat loss
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Habitat
fragmentation
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Habitat degradation
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Poaching for ivory
You have the chance to help these elephants.
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What would it be like spending a holiday helping endangered elephants?
The Sri Lankan elephant (Elephas maximus maximus)
has shared a special bond with the people of Sri Lanka for centuries.
Things are changing, though, and these wonderful animals now face an
uncertain future with less than 3,500 in the wild.
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Habitat loss
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Habitat
fragmentation
-
Habitat degradation
-
Poaching for ivory
You have the chance to help these elephants.
Dedicated
conservation efforts, political will and commitment and
adequate financial support, are essential to halt these threats and
ensure the elephants' long term survival, and also benefits many other
species of plants & animals sharing the elephants' habitat.
There's a holiday on Sri Lanka which gives you the opportunity to help the work
of the Sri Lankan Wildlife Conservation Society. Volunteers have the
chance to be involved in hands on conservation work, working alongside
field scientists and conducting surveys of the endangered Sri
Lankan elephants in the forests, grass plains and water holes.
Team members are rotated through the various activities, including cycling to villages to find out whether the elephants have caused any damage by raiding (and then interviewing owners to asssess & record damage), driving through the Minneriya National Park and other areas to record elephants you come across. You'll help identify,
photograph, cross-reference or add them to the database and record
individual behavior and herd composition. And there are tree hut observations, when you spent the night in a tree hut near a water hole, waiting for elephants to appear and, if they do, recording their behaviour, herd composition, activity patterns etc.
How refreshed would you feel after two weeks or more off, returning to work to tell your mates there what you've been up to?
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